Add keyring (un)locker

[IvoLeist]

Hey polybar users

first of all thank you for maintaining this awesome collection of polybar examples.
I already took many of these for my setup so now it is time for me to give something back.
And since we are in Barcelona in a "lockdown" situation at the moment...

Let me know if you are interested in that module so I can clean up the code/
make the naming more consistent that it fits in your collection.

Best,
Ivo

[x70b1]

Do you know the pam-gnupg project?
You could combine this with a pam screenlocker and unlock your pass.

[IvoLeist]

Hello x70b1

thank you for your opinion.

yes on my search for a good solution I stumbled above the pam-gnupg project.
But I somehow did not managed to preset the passphrase.
Whichever settings I did pass kept asking me for the pass phrase
although I have seen in the gpg keylist that the pass phrase is cached.

gnome-keyring on the other hand enables me to skip the pass phrase
prompt as long the keyring is unlocked.

Additionally I am reluctant to unlock my keyring with my login password thats
why I use the gnome-keyring with another password.

I might be a little paranoid but since my Laptop is at the moment my
only computer and thus password store for everything I just want to be on the safe side

Don't you think that gnome-keyring "workaround" is a good solution?
Why would you prefer pam?

[x70b1]

Thats just my point of view.

I use a PAM-based screenlocker to unlock everything. My pass with pam-gnupg and my ssh keys with pam_exec-ssh. I run the screenlocker at the boot of my system without a display manager. So that I unlock all the stuff on my first login.

Its lightweight and you can configure everything in files.

I used the gnome-keyring too. But for me I wanted a smaller solution. Its not bad or unsafe. But the keyring-daemon, seahorse and dbus-requirement was to much for me.

[x70b1]

Should we still work on this script?

[IvoLeist]

@x70b1 depends if you like my gnome-keyring solution?
Right now I do not have the time to look deeper into pam_exec

[x70b1]

Well, you have a number of scripts here in this PR. That makes it a bit difficult.
So I close it.

But I am happy that you have found a solution for you. 👍