master password on cmd line

[Damon Atkins]

These days monitoring the commands, is becoming common. You have another option which does not see the secret password on the command line. Any chance of a python direct interface.

[Ignat Korchagin]

• the tool currently has "interactive mode" - if you don't specify the -p switch it will ask the password interactively, similar to the way Unix login does
• if you need to hide the password from the loggers, probably the easiest way would be just store it in an environment variable and make sure you calling gokey with a shell

Regarding direct python interface, nothing specific is planned so far. This code was designed in a way to provide the main functionality as a library - technically cmd/gokey is just one cmdline "frontend", but there may be others. And since one can compile go into native shared libraries I would imagine writing Python module-wrapper would not be very hard. One can build a CPython module directly in Go or use ctypes from Python just to call the native library. Examples:

• https://blog.filippo.io/building-python-modules-with-go-1-5/
• https://medium.com/learning-the-go-programming-language/calling-go-functions-from-other-languages-4c7d8bcc69bf

[Benjamin Drung]

Can you please support specifying a password file instead of the password, e.g. -P /path/to/file instead of -p very-secure-password?

[Ignat Korchagin]

Yes, I guess. Created #12 for that.

[Ignat Korchagin]

Closing this as #13 is merged, so should address the issue.