diff mcabber/mcabberrc.example @ 2172:06669fc1810c

Add support for using external password managers I wrote the attached patch to enable to usage of password stores like pass with mcabber to avoid putting plain passwords into the config file.
author Christian Burkert <post@cburkert.de>
date Sun, 28 Jun 2015 12:58:10 +0200
parents 282531385f34
children ee3a40ffcd8b
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--- a/mcabber/mcabberrc.example	Sun Feb 15 17:07:05 2015 +0100
+++ b/mcabber/mcabberrc.example	Sun Jun 28 12:58:10 2015 +0200
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
 # enclose it with quotes: set password = " example password "
 #set password = yourpassword
 
+# Read password from output of the given command.
+# This is a way to use password managers like 'pass' in order
+# to avoid writing plain passwords into config files.
+#set password_eval = "your command"
+
 # You can provide a server name if you want mcabber to connect
 # to a specific server.
 #set server = your.jabber.server