parsing encrypted netrc file

[Barry Scott]

> On 22 Jun 2020, at 23:38, Seb <spluque at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> What's the pythonic way to do this without polluting the user's
> directory with the decrypted file?  I wrongly thought this should do it:
> 
> import os.path as osp
> import gnupg
> import netrc
> import tempfile
> 
> gpg = gnupg.GPG()
> 
> with open(osp.expanduser("~/.authinfo.gpg"), "rb") as f:
>    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile("w+") as tf:
>        status = gpg.decrypt_file(f, output=tf.name)
>        info = netrc.netrc(tf.name)
> 
> which fails as the temporary file doesn't even get created.

I do not how to do this. But I would decrypt into a string in memory.
Then have netrc parse from the string.

There is no point in having an encrypted file if you are going to decrypt in to
a temp file. A deleted files leaves it in the contents on the disk
to be grab by bad actors.

Barry



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