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How to store sensitive information (passwords) so it can be accessed by cronjob?

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I'm writing an extension to a python program that will need to store passwords and need to access them during non interactive cronjobs (during the user is not logged in).

My first approach was to use seahorse to store the password. But seahorse is not accessible when the user is not logged in, is it?

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answered 2 Years ago nquirewha · Accepted Answer

an other approach:

A daemon start on users first time login collecting passwords from gnome-keyring and providing a private fifo (mode 0600) on which it will wait for requests (e.g. 'PROTOCOL:USER@HOST') and answer with password.