#Get Password from your Password manager

Requires:

• a password-manager supporting Freedesktop.org Secret Service integration
• secret-tool (usually provided by libsecret or a similar package)

Tested with:

• KeePassXC

1. create the following script:

#!/bin/sh

secret-tool lookup "$1" "$2"
# wait until the password is available
while [ $? != 0 ]; do
	secret-tool lookup "$1" "$2"
done

Note that the way secret-tool lookup works is with a key/value pair in whatever secret store you're using. So you could store a secret with:

$ secret-tool store --label='foo' bar baz

And retrieve it with:

$ secret-tool lookup bar baz

The key is bar and the value is baz. Most likely you would want to use it like:

$ secret-tool store --label='main email' Title user@example.com

You would be prompted to enter the password upon entering this; the password is not part of the command.

Normally, adding secrets etc is all done inside your password manager, however if you are using something like gnome-keyring, you may find this method easier to set the key and value you intend to look up.

1. Edit your accounts.conf to use source-cred-cmd and outgoing-cred-cmd to point to the script.

source-cred-cmd = ~/.config/aerc/scripts/wait-for-creds.sh Title "Mailaccount (Work)"

aerc will now wait for the credentials to become available (for you to unlock you password manager) when starting.