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[PATCH] send-email: Defines smtpPassCmd config option

From
Leonardo Bras <leobras.c@gmail.com>
Date
May 1, 2020, 10:51 UTC
Message-ID
<20200501105131.297457-1-leobras.c@gmail.com>

Defines smtpPassCmd config option, to allow the user to pass a command that is used to output the password.

Its useful for users that store the password encrypted on disk, and want a easy way to send-email without typing it again.

Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leobras.c@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/config/sendemail.txt |  1 +
 Documentation/git-send-email.txt   |  5 +++--
 git-send-email.perl                | 11 +++++++++++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt b/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt
index 0006faf800..f71e58862d 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ sendemail.from::
 sendemail.multiEdit::
 sendemail.signedoffbycc::
 sendemail.smtpPass::
+sendemail.smtpPassCmd::
 sendemail.suppresscc::
 sendemail.suppressFrom::
 sendemail.to::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 0a69810147..8e9da5ed64 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -203,8 +203,9 @@ independently of `--smtp-user`
 Furthermore, passwords need not be specified in configuration files
 or on the command line. If a username has been specified (with
 `--smtp-user` or a `sendemail.smtpUser`), but no password has been
-specified (with `--smtp-pass` or `sendemail.smtpPass`), then
-a password is obtained using 'git-credential'.
+specified (with `--smtp-pass` or `sendemail.smtpPass`, or as an output
+of `sendemail.smtpPassCmd`), then a password is obtained using
+'git-credential'.
 
 --no-smtp-auth::
 	Disable SMTP authentication. Short hand for `--smtp-auth=none`
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index dc95656f75..d953ebb058 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ sub format_2822_time {
 my $smtp;
 my $auth;
 my $num_sent = 0;
+my $smtp_authpass_cmd;
 
 # Regexes for RFC 2047 productions.
 my $re_token = qr/[^][()<>@,;:\\"\/?.= \000-\037\177-\377]+/;
@@ -271,6 +272,7 @@ sub do_edit {
     "smtpserveroption" => \@smtp_server_options,
     "smtpuser" => \$smtp_authuser,
     "smtppass" => \$smtp_authpass,
+    "smtppasscmd" => \$smtp_authpass_cmd,
     "smtpdomain" => \$smtp_domain,
     "smtpauth" => \$smtp_auth,
     "smtpbatchsize" => \$batch_size,
@@ -1303,6 +1305,15 @@ sub smtp_auth_maybe {
 		die "invalid smtp auth: '${smtp_auth}'";
 	}
 
+	# Check password command if password was not provided.
+	if(!defined $smtp_authpass && defined $smtp_authpass_cmd){
+		open my $pass, "$smtp_authpass_cmd |"
+			or die sprintf(__("Could not execute '%s'"), $smtp_authpass_cmd);
+		#Cut newline char
+		$smtp_authpass = substr <$pass>, 0, -1;
+		close($pass);
+	}
+
 	# TODO: Authentication may fail not because credentials were
 	# invalid but due to other reasons, in which we should not
 	# reject credentials.
-- 
2.25.4
Next: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
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  1. send-email: Defines smtpPassCmd config optionLeonardo Bras, May 1, 2020
  2. Carlo Marcelo Arenas BelónMay 1, 2020
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2020
  4. Taylor BlauMay 1, 2020
  5. brian m. carlsonMay 1, 2020
  6. Jeff KingMay 3, 2020
  7. brian m. carlsonMay 3, 2020
  8. Carlo Marcelo Arenas BelónMay 3, 2020
  9. Leonardo BrasMay 4, 2020
  10. Jeff KingMay 4, 2020
  11. Leonardo BrasMay 4, 2020
  12. Leonardo BrasMay 4, 2020
  13. Leonardo BrasMay 4, 2020

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