A simple library to make it easy to store credentials, retrieve credentials, and make it so that you don't accidentally commit said credentials to your public git repo.

# from ipython
import supersecret

supersecret.storeSecret("website.com", "username", "myname")
supersecret.storeSecret("website.com", "password", "mypassword")

# From your application
import supersecret

connect_to_website(username=supersecret.getSecret("website.com", "username"),
                   password=supersecret.getSecret("website.com", "password"))

You can also use python -m supersecret to list and store supersecret.

$ python -m supersecret store website.com username bob
$ python -m supersecret show website.com

The secrets are stored, unencrypted, in ~/.supersecret.

You can clone the repo and run

$ python setup.py install

Or you can install directly using pip and this repo

$ pip install git+git://github.com/cwgreene/supersecret.git

The first parameter in the above examples "website.com" is called a scope. Each scope will correspond to a separate file in ~/.supersecret.

supersecret allows you to use a different directory than ~/.supersecret, by using

import supersecret

supersecret.provider = supersecret.FileSystemProvider("/path/to/other/directory")

It is strongly recommended that you do not put supersecret in your repo directory, as this would allow for accidental commits of the supersecret (which is the main thing this library is attempting to avoid). It is probably also recommended not to have multiple user access to this directory.

Theoretically, you can create a new provider class; checkout supersecret.py for the required functions to be implemented. I'll probably make this interface explicit sometime with inheritance.