annex.cachecreds: New config to allow disabling of credentials caching for special remotes.
Note that it does not prevent storing p2p access tokens or multicast encryption keys, since those are not cached; the previous commit established the distinction. How well this works depends on how often getRemoteCredPair is called and how expensive it is. In some cases setting this will result in an annoying number of gpg password prompts and/or slowdowns due to reading creds from the git-annex branch and decrypting, which could be improved by calling getRemoteCredPair less often. This commit was sponsored by Ilya Shlyakhter on Patreon.
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username="joey"
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subject="""comment 1"""
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date="2018-12-04T17:18:19Z"
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content="""
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I agree it would make sense to have some way to embedcreds without
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encrypting content stored on the remote.
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I suppose one way to express it is as encryption=onlycreds embedcreds=yes
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with one or more keyids.
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Note that the tahoe special remote supports embedcreds,
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but disallows setting any encryption (because tahoe handles that)
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so the encryptions can only be stored in the clear. It would make sense for
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tahoe to support encryption=onlycreds while disallowing other encryption
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methods.
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As for storing creds locally only in encrypted form, it would suffice to
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have an option that makes git-annex not write anything to
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.git/annex/creds/, so it would not use those files as a cache, and would
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pull the creds out of the repository and decrypt each time needed
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(or use environment varibles for creds when applicable.) In some cases
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that would cause more gpg prompts. I think that S3 and WebDAV special
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remotes only call getRemoteCredPair once per run, but external may
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call it repeatedly, and glacier calls it once per request.
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Implemented as annex.cachecreds.
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