infoauth 1.0

A small but handy module and script to load/save tokens from/to disk.

It does:

• Save tokens in a file in disk, pickled and zipped

• Change the file to read-only, and only by yourself

• Load the tokens from disk

In which case this module is useful? Say you have a script or program that needs to use some secret tokens (mail auth, twitter tokens, DB connection info, etc…), but you don’t want to include those tokens in the code, because it is public, so with this module you do:

tokens = infoauth.load(os.path.expanduser("~/.my-tokens"))

Note that the user will remain only readable by yourself, and not in the project file (so you don’t have the risk of sharing it by accident).

WARNING: it does NOT protect your secrets with any key or anything, this module does NOT secure your secrets in any way. Yes, the tokens are scrambled (because pickled and zipped) and other people may not be able to access them easily (readable only by you), but no further protection is implemented. Use at your own risk.

import infoauth
auth = infoauth.load(os.path.expanduser("~/.my-mail-auth"))
# ...
mail.auth(auth['user'], auth['password'])

import infoauth
secrets = {'some-stuff': 'foo', 'code': 67}
infoauth.dump(secrets, os.path.expanduser("~/.secrets"))

$ infoauth show ~/.my-mail-auth
password: ...
user: ...

$ infoauth create ~/.secrets some-stuff=foo code=67