NAME

Config::Identity - Load (and optionally decrypt via GnuPG) user/pass identity information

VERSION

version 0.0019

SYNOPSIS

PAUSE:

    use Config::Identity::PAUSE;

    # 1. Find either $HOME/.pause-identity or $HOME/.pause
    # 2. Decrypt the found file (if necessary), read, and parse it
    # 3. Throw an exception unless  %identity has 'user' and 'password' defined

    my %identity = Config::Identity::PAUSE->load_check;
    print "user: $identity{user} password: $identity{password}\n";

GitHub API:

    use Config::Identity::GitHub;

    # 1. Find either $HOME/.github-identity or $HOME/.github
    # 2. Decrypt the found file (if necessary) read, and parse it
    # 3. Throw an exception unless %identity has 'login' and 'token' defined

    my %identity = Config::Identity::PAUSE->load_check;
    print "login: $identity{login} token: $identity{token}\n";

DESCRIPTION

Config::Identity is a tool for loading (and optionally decrypting via GnuPG) user/pass identity information

For GitHub API access, an identity is a login/token pair

For PAUSE access, an identity is a user/password pair

USAGE

%identity = Config::Identity->load_best( <stub> )

First attempt to load an identity from $HOME/.<stub>-identity

If that file does not exist, then attempt to load an identity from $HOME/.<stub>

The file may be optionally GnuPG encrypted

%identity will be populated like so:

    <key> <value>

For example:

    username alice
    password hunter2

If an identity file can't be found or read, the method croaks.

%identity = Config::Identity->load_check( <stub>, <checker> )

Works like load_best but also checks for required keys. The checker argument must be an array reference of required keys or a code reference that takes a hashref of key/value pairs from the identity file and returns a list of missing keys. For convenience, the hashref will also be placed in $_.

If any keys are found missing, the method croaks.

Using a custom gpg or passing custom arguments

You can specify a custom gpg executable by setting the CI_GPG environment variable

    export CI_GPG="$HOME/bin/gpg"

You can pass custom arguments by setting the CI_GPG_ARGUMENTS environment variable

    export CI_GPG_ARGUMENTS="--no-secmem-warning"

Encrypting your identity information with GnuPG

If you've never used GnuPG before, first initialize it:

    # Follow the prompts to create a new key for yourself
    gpg --gen-key 

To encrypt your GitHub identity with GnuPG using the above key:

    # Follow the prompts, using the above key as the "recipient"
    # Use ^D once you've finished typing out your authentication information
    gpg -ea > $HOME/.github

Caching your GnuPG secret key via gpg-agent

Put the following in your .*rc

    if which gpg-agent 1>/dev/null
    then
        if test -f $HOME/.gpg-agent-info && \
            kill -0 `cut -d: -f 2 $HOME/.gpg-agent-info` 2>/dev/null
        then
            . "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info"
            export GPG_AGENT_INFO
        else
            eval `gpg-agent --daemon --write-env-file "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info"`
        fi
    else
    fi

PAUSE identity format

    user <user>
    password <password>

username can also be used as alias for user

GitHub identity format

    login <login>
    token <token>

SUPPORT

Bugs / Feature Requests

Please report any bugs or feature requests through the issue tracker at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Config-Identity. You will be notified automatically of any progress on your issue.

Source Code

This is open source software. The code repository is available for public review and contribution under the terms of the license.

https://github.com/dagolden/Config-Identity

  git clone https://github.com/dagolden/Config-Identity.git

AUTHOR

Robert Krimen <robertkrimen@gmail.com>

CONTRIBUTOR

David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Robert Krimen.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm Config::Identity

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Config::Identity