`pass less` with timeout

[Danylo Hlynskyi]

Thank, the workaround with `complete -F` is perfectly fine for me!

2018-06-05 12:21 GMT+03:00 Timmo Verlaan <tverlaan at gmail.com>:

> 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
> password-store?
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