pass env

An extension for the password store that allows to display password in format suitable for importing as env variables.

password store is a secure storage for sensivity data. A common password file would look like this:

Yw|ZSNH!}z"6{ym9pI
URL: *.amazon.com/*
Username: AmazonianChicken@example.com

A common use case is to copy the first line, the password, using pass show -c <password file>.

The meta data usually cannot be copied but needs to be displayed as it contains type and value.

pass env

pass env <password file> displays the whole password file in way suitable for importing to environment pass env <password file>. This allows to store cloud credentials i.e. AWS_KEY etc in pass and load them to enviromnent effectivly.

# Key for account Blah-blah-blah
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<access key>
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<secret access key>

invoking command pass env <password file> will show this file in form

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<access key>
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<secret access key>

i.e. suitable to load to current shell enviromnet by `` operator

Installation

• Enable password-store extensions by setting PASSWORD_STORE_ENABLE_EXTENSIONS=true
• make install
• alternatively add env.bash to your extension folder (by default at ~/.password-store/.extensions)

Completion

This extensions comes with the extension bash completion support added with password-store version 1.7.3

When installed, bash completion is already installed. Alternatively source completion/pass-env.bash.completion

fish and zsh completion are not available, feel free to contribute.

Contribution

Contributions are always welcome.