Re: Entering a passphrase interactively in a runit script

From: Max Ivanov <ivanov.maxim_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 11:56:09 +0100

I am not deeply familiar with runit, but you essentially what you need
is to use some terminal or /dev/console as your script stdin and
stdout.

stdin is file descriptor 0
stdout is file descriptor 1

On 25 May 2016 at 11:50, Christophe-Marie Duquesne <chmd_at_chmd.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to write a runit script that would require a passphrase
> when starting. This passphrase must not exist in clear on the
> filesystem, and it would require user interaction.
>
> I tried to have runit read the passphrase into the environment of the script:
>
> read -s PASSPHRASE
> exec prog # reads PASSPHRASE from the environment
>
> but starting this with runit triggers no interaction, and the
> PASSPHRASE variable ends up being empty.
>
> Any idea how to proceed?
>
> Cheers,
> Christophe-Marie
Received on Wed May 25 2016 - 10:56:09 UTC