parsing encrypted netrc file
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Mon Jun 22 21:08:19 EDT 2020
On 2020-06-23 01:47, Seb wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:40:28 +0100,
> MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2020-06-22 23:38, Seb wrote:
>>> Hello,
>
>>> What's the pythonic way to do this without polluting the user's
>>> directory with the decrypted file? I wrongly thought this should do
>>> it:
>
>>> import os.path as osp import gnupg import netrc import tempfile
>
>>> gpg = gnupg.GPG()
>
>>> with open(osp.expanduser("~/.authinfo.gpg"), "rb") as f: with
>>> tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile("w+") as tf: status = gpg.decrypt_file(f,
>>> output=tf.name) info = netrc.netrc(tf.name)
>
>>> which fails as the temporary file doesn't even get created.
>
>> Are you sure it doesn't get created?
>
> Without using tempfile:
>
> with open(osp.expanduser("~/.authinfo.gpg"), "rb") as f:
> status = gpg.decrypt_file(f, output=".authinfo.txt")
> info = netrc.netrc(".authinfo.txt")
>
> I get the error:
>
> NetrcParseError: bad follower token 'port' (.authinfo.txt, line 1)
>
> which is interesting. The structure of ~/.authinfo.gpg is:
>
> machine my.server.com login user at foo.com password mypasswd port 587
>
> so it seems this is not what netrc.netrc expects.
>
Here's a page I found about ".netrc":
https://ec.haxx.se/usingcurl/usingcurl-netrc
and here's a page I found about ".authinfo.gpg":
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusAuthinfo
Can you see the subtle difference?
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