On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 18:52 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 13/12/16 18:19, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 14:36 +0000, Dave Love wrote:
> > Simo Sorce <simo(a)redhat.com> writes:
> >
> > > If you really need to automate it because typing a password is too hard:
> > > cat ~/.mykrbpassword | kinit myusername
> >
> > It needs to be automated principally because the password is not
> > memorable. I assume infrastructure people would rather we don't use the
> > least secure credentials we can.
>
> It is the same password you had to use every day to access services like
> bodhi, pkgdb, fas, etc...
Yes, the 16 character random one that is known to my browser's password
manager but not to me unless I look it up. So yes I do "use" it all the
time but only in as much as I hit the login button on my browser's
toolbar and it sends it to the web site.
Why not use a decent login manager, that makes it easy to look up
passwords, rather than the (usually fairly bad) ones built into web
browsers?
I use lastpass, but if I was starting over I'd probably use pass:
https://www.passwordstore.org/
there are other options too. I don't find it at all difficult to go to
the (pinned) LastPass tab in my browser, type 'fedora' in the search
box to find my FAS password, and right-click / 'copy password' to copy
it to the clipboard.
For your case (working from a remote console), pass looks especially
suitable.
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