Don't do that.
Storing the pgp pass phrase in an environment variable may have been
a valid option on MS-DOS computers. It isn't on Unix machines,
since the environment is not guaranteed to be confidential.
Also, what's the point in using a shell script like the one below?
- There is no reason to avoid running two mutts on the same mailbox.
Mutt _does_ know how to graciously deal with concurrent access to
mail folders.
- There is no point in asking for the pass phrase in a shell script,
and then storing it in $PGPPASS. Mutt will ask for the pass
phrase the first time it's needed, and remember it for the coming
$pgp_timeout seconds. The default is 300 seconds; you can easily
change that from your .muttrc.
Note that the mechanism mutt uses to pass the pass phrase to pgp
_is_ safe against eavesdropping by other users on the same system.
On 2000-10-20 10:21:20 +0200, Daniel Kollar wrote:
> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:21:20 +0200
> From: Daniel Kollar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Mutt User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: FEATURE-REQUEST: mutt looks for PGPPASS environment variable
> Mail-Followup-To: Mutt User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i
>
> Hello mutt-developers,
>
> here is a feature request for future versions of mutt:
>
> Mutt looks for the PGPPASS environment variable. If this is set, then
> no passphrase is needed to be send to pgp program, because pgp looks
> for the PGPPASS variable by itself.
> Mutt will also not ask the user for the passphrase.
>
> This should be easy to implement.
>
> The user would then have the option to set the passphrase via a
> wrapper-script permanently.
> For example:
> ------------------------ muttwrap -------------------
> #!/usr/bin/sh
> set $passparam=$*
> if ( ps -U $LOGNAME | grep mutt | grep -v muttwrap > /dev/null ) then
> echo "WARNING: You are already running Mutt."
> echo " Starting Mutt in readonly mode."
> echo
> echo "Please enter passphrase: "
> stty -echo
> read pgppassphrase
> PGPPASS=$pgppassphrase; export PGPPASS
> stty echo
> $PATHTOMUTT/mutt -R $*
> else
> echo "Please enter passphrase: "
> stty -echo
> read pgppassphrase
> PGPPASS=$pgppassphrase; export PGPPASS
> stty echo
> $PATHTOMUTT/mutt $passparam
> fi
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Regards,
> Daniel.
>
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Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
