calcurse-caldav: Support PasswordCommand option
This commit adds a new `Auth/PasswordCommand` option
to support security best practices re: handling secrets
in CLI program configuration.
Prior to this commit, the two available options
for specifying a password were:
1. via the `Auth/Password` config parameter, or
2. via a `$CALCURSE_CALDAV_PASSWORD` environment variable.
The former is unsafe for obvious reasons;
the latter is unsafe because as long as the script is running,
its environment can be accessed via
$ cat /proc/<pid>/environ
and is thus visible to anyone with access to the system.
This commit preserves preexisting behavior (for backward compatibility)
but removes all mention of option 2 from the README.
Since the README example for option 2 used a password command anyway,
there is little reason to continue its use,
and this commit recommends it be deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer@calcurse.org>
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@@ -34,13 +34,12 @@ argument. You can choose between the following initialization modes:
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For subsequent calcurse-caldav invocations, you don't need to specify any
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additional parameters.
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You can specify a username and password for basic authentication in the
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config file. Alternatively, the password can be passed securely from another
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program (such as *pass*) via the `CALCURSE_CALDAV_PASSWORD` environment variable like
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so:
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```
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CALCURSE_CALDAV_PASSWORD=$(pass show calcurse) calcurse-caldav
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```
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Specify your HTTP Basic authentication credentials under the config file's
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`Auth` section. The most secure approach is to save your password in a CLI
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encrypted password store (_e.g.,_ [pass](https://www.passwordstore.org/)), and
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then set `PasswordCommand` to the shell command used to retrieve it.
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If security is not a priority, you may store your password in plain text
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instead.
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Hooks
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