Subject: bug#50953: auth-source-pass should not be limited to a local directory

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:10:18 +0200

Lorenzo Martinico <[email-masked]> writes:

> Apologies if this is not the appropriate mailing list for this message.
> I would like to put in a bug report / feature request for
> auth-source-pass to stop using the local file directory and just rely on
> the output of the pass command (or provide an option to do that
> instead).

What's the "pass" command?

larsi@elva:~/src/emacs/trunk$ type pass
bash: type: pass: not found

> For context, I would like to be able to use the pass command (or rather,
>  an alias) to fetch files from a different host on every request, but
>  not store the gpg files on my local machine.

Can't you just set the gpg file location to "/ssh:other-host:.authinfo.gpg"?

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