Tired of typing your #freenode password when ERC is connecting ? You don't want to write you passwords as clear text in your .emacs files ?
Lets see how to store, passwords in the Gnome Keyring, and access it from Emacs. It only needs Pymacs and gnome-keyring python bindings.
- Write a little module to read and write passwords. This module will be loaded my pymacs and its functions will be available from emacs-lisp. You may name your module 'gnome-keyring.py' and store it somewhere like '~/.emacs.d/pymacs/'
def get_password(name):
import gnomekeyring as gk
try:
items = gk.find_items_sync(gk.ITEM_GENERIC_SECRET,
dict(variable_name=name))
except gk.NoMatchError:
return None
return items[0].secret
get_password.interaction = ""
import gnomekeyring as gk
try:
items = gk.find_items_sync(gk.ITEM_GENERIC_SECRET,
dict(variable_name=name))
except gk.NoMatchError:
return None
return items[0].secret
get_password.interaction = ""
def set_password(name, password):
import gnomekeyring as gk
gk.item_create_sync(gk.get_default_keyring_sync(),
gk.ITEM_GENERIC_SECRET,
"Emacs password", dict(variable_name=name),
password, True),
set_password.interaction = ""
- Load the module using pymacs
(require 'pymacs)
(add-to-list 'pymacs-load-path "~/.emacs.d/pymacs/")
(pymacs-load "gnome-keyring" "gnome-keyring-")
(add-to-list 'pymacs-load-path "~/.emacs.d/pymacs/")
(pymacs-load "gnome-keyring" "gnome-keyring-")
- Trying from the interactive emacs lisp mode (M-x ielm)
ELISP> (gnome-keyring-set-password "my-password" "p4$$w0rD")
nil
ELISP> (gnome-keyring-get-password "my-password")
"p4$$w0rD"
nil
ELISP> (gnome-keyring-get-password "my-password")
"p4$$w0rD"
- And now, an example for ERC
(setq erc-password (gnome-keyring-get-password "my-password"))
(setq erc-prompt-for-password nil)
(setq erc-prompt-for-password nil)
Too easy ! 