[featurerequest] comments in .gpg-id files

Guy Godfroy guy.godfroy at gugod.fr
Wed Sep 30 08:14:19 CEST 2020


Maybe being able to (but not have to) have a folder instead of a single 
file would make sense.

For instance:

   .gpg-id/
   ├── alice
   └── bob

Guy

On 29/09/2020 17:02, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> On 2020-09-24 17:02, Arthur Lutz wrote:> One thing that would be neat
> (and maybe is already possible) would be to
>> have comments in the .gpg-id file to indicate who the key belongs to.
>> Going from :
>>
>>    cat teamA/.gpg-id
>>    0123901293
>>    0912385810
>>
>> To
>>
>>    cat teamA/.gpg
>>    # bob
>>    0123901293
>>    # alice
>>     0912385810
> 
> we had the same challenge, so I patched this some time ago, see thread
> "[PATCH] Allow comments in .gpg-id" from 2019-12-17.
> 
> it only accepts comments after the gpg-ids, though.  unfortunately,
> Jason has not merged it upstream.  the patch is quite simple:
> 
> --- src/password-store.sh
> +++ src/password-store.sh
> @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ set_gpg_recipients() {
> 
>       local gpg_id
>       while read -r gpg_id; do
> +        gpg_id="${gpg_id%%#*}"    # strip comment
>           GPG_RECIPIENT_ARGS+=( "-r" "$gpg_id" )
>           GPG_RECIPIENTS+=( "$gpg_id" )
>       done < "$current"
> 
> 


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