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How to safely store passwords in Irssi?

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Mar 15, 20261908 views
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I use several IRC networks and it's unsafe to store passwords in plain text. On the other hand, typing each password after connection is uncomfortable. How can I store passwords in encrypted file and only type database-password on Irssi startup? Do you know any scripts which provide something like …

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Set up eCryptFS, encfs, or a similar encrypting filesystem. Mount it on or similar. Move your to the private directory and symlink it back to the old place. eCryptFS is recommended; it's in-kernel and gives fairly good performance. But there are oth…

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