acct 8.6.2

Simple, secure, account and credential management

acct

Simple and secure account management

USAGE

Yaml files containing confidential information can be encrypted for use inside of acct base applications. This is an example of what an acct credentials file might look like.

credentials.yml

provider:
  profile_name:
    username: XXXXXXXXXXXX
    password: XXXXXXXXXXXX
    api_key: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Next use the acct command to encrypt this file using the fernet algorithm:

$ acct encrypt credentials.yml
YeckEnWEGOjBDVxxytw13AsdLgquzhCtFHOs7kDsna8=

The acct command can also be used to decrypt the encrypted file:

$ acct decrypt credentials.yml.fernet --output=yaml --acct-key="YeckEnWEGOjBDVxxytw13AsdLgquzhCtFHOs7kDsna8="

The fernet plugin is the default for encryption, but other plugins may be added. To use the AES plugin change the previous commands to:

$ acct encrypt --crypto-plugin aesgcm256 credentials.yml
YeckEnWEGOjBDVxxytw13AsdLgquzhCtFHOs7kDsna8=
$ acct decrypt --crypto-plugin aesgcm256 credentials.yml.aesgcm256 --output=yaml --acct-key="YeckEnWEGOjBDVxxytw13AsdLgquzhCtFHOs7kDsna8="

You can use the acct command to decrypt the acct file, open it in the default text editor, then overwrite the previous acct file: The default editor from the “EDITOR” environment variable will be used if it is set, otherwise, “notepad” for windows and “vi” for unix systems. It can also be specified directly with the “–editor” flag.

$ acct edit credentials.yml --acct-key="YeckEnWEGOjBDVxxytw13AsdLgquzhCtFHOs7kDsna8="

What is POP?

This project is built with pop, a Python-based implementation of Plugin Oriented Programming (POP). POP seeks to bring together concepts and wisdom from the history of computing in new ways to solve modern computing problems.

For more information:

• Intro to Plugin Oriented Programming (POP)

• pop-awesome

• pop-create

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python 3.6+

• git (if installing from source, or contributing to the project)

Installation

Note

If wanting to contribute to the project, and setup your local development environment, see the CONTRIBUTING.rst document in the source repository for this project.

If wanting to use acct, you can do so by either installing from PyPI or from source.

Acknowledgements

• Img Shields for making repository badges easy.