[Python-ideas] Make getpass.getpass use system password keyrings ?

[Tarek Ziadé]

Hello,

What about having an option in getpass to store and reuse passwords in
system keyrings ?

    getpass(prompt[, stream])

would become:

    getpass(prompt[, stream, keyring])

where keyring would be a callable that can be use to retrieve the
password from a keyring system
and store it the first time.

The getpass module could provide some keyring support for:

- ssh-agent under Linux
- keychain under Mac OS X
- ...

And let the developers use their own keyring system by providing a callable.

Regards
Tarek

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