`pass less` with timeout

[Timmo Verlaan]

Hi Danylo,

This is an excellent idea! Your implementation will probably not be
added this way since it will add two more dependencies to pass (timeout
& less). However you could easily add it as an extension:
https://www.passwordstore.org/#extensions. This would enable bash
completion again AFAIK.
Another option to get bash completion is to add something like this to
your bashrc:
if type _pass &> /dev/null; then
  complete -o default -o nospace -F _pass passless;
fi;

A third option is to implement this functionality using bash scripting
and sleep. I'll see if I can come up with something. No promises
though :-)
Kind regards,
Timmo Verlaan


On Thu, May 24, 2018, at 14:21, Danylo Hlynskyi wrote:
> There is a little usecase that I use for credit cards secrets.
> Basically, I save credit card details and secrets as a multiline
> password. So I can't just `pass show -c my/credit/card` because I
> can't paste it into any webform.> 
> Also, I don't want to `pass show my/credit/card` because this precious
> info now sits in my terminal scrollback. Urgh.> 
> What I want is to `pass show` with a timeout, so information is
> visible for some time, but eventually disappears. So I have time to
> copypaste details into webform.> 
> I've created a small function for this:
> 
>     function passless {
>       pass show "$@" | timeout --foreground 30s less
>     }
> 
> It doesn't leave traces of secret in terminal scrollback and exits
> automatically in 30 sec.> 
> What do you think about adding first class support for such a feature?
> The problem with my function is it doesn't have autocomplete - a huge
> drawback in usability.> Or maybe there are better ways to store-and-fetch credit card info in
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