Read credentials from authinfo file

[kostajh]

It would be nice to store the client-secret, token and client-id in the user's authinfo file.

[creichert]

The best solution would be to use auth-sources. In emacs 25, auth-sources was enhanced to support external sources. For example, the auth-source-pass package uses pass as a backend:

(defun auth-source-pass-enable ()
  "Enable auth-source-password-store."
  ;; To add password-store to the list of sources, evaluate the following:
  (add-to-list 'auth-sources 'password-store)
  ;; clear the cache (required after each change to #'auth-source-pass-search)
  (auth-source-forget-all-cached))

The way auth-sources is populated above, authinfo will still be used as a fallback.

[slipsnip]

I get

Failed to request slack-authorize: invalid_auth [2 times]

My config looks like this:

(setq auth-source-debug t) (load "~/Yandex.Disk/private/slack.el") (defun auth-source-pass-enable () "Enable auth-source-password-store." ;; To add password-store to the list of sources, evaluate the following: (add-to-list 'auth-sources 'password-store) ;; clear the cache (required after each change to #'auth-source-pass-search) (auth-source-forget-all-cached)) (setenv "GPG_AGENT_INFO" nil) (auth-source-pass-enable)

I have the packages [auth-source-pass, password-store, password-store-otp] installed

I am not sure how to get emacs-slack to work with my password store that I generated with pass insert -m [email protected] where [email protected] is my email address and the file looks like this

mypassword URL: .slack.com/ Username: [email protected] client-id: numbers... token: blah...

I created a file slack.el which I load into my config

(slack-register-team :name "nix duo" :default t :token "token" :subscribed-channels '(general slackbot))

Do you think that you could help with this.

[gonewest818]

You're going to need to call auth-source-search to get the password and token data from pass, and then use plist-get to read the individual fields. Something like this:

(let ((auth (car (auth-source-search :host "slack.com"))))
  (slack-register-team
    :name "nix duo"
    :default t
    :client-id (plist-get auth :client-id)
    :token (plist-get auth :token)
    :subscribed-channels '(general slackbot)))

[ealvar3z]

The documentation is updated but it could still be problematic for a beginner. The below solution worked for me:

(slack-register-team
 ;; other stuff
 :client-secret (auth-source-pick-first-password
                       :host '("yourchannel.slack.com")
                       :user "secret" :type 'netrc :max 1)
 :token (auth-source-pick-first-password
               :host '("yourchannel.slack.com")
               :user "token" :type 'netrc :max 1)
 ; other stuff
)

and put the corresponding entries in your ~/.authinfo.gpg, e..g machine yourchannel.slack.com login token password xoxs-yyyyyyyyyy... <-here you put the actual token you retrieved from Chrome Dev tools.

[gonewest818]

Hi. It's been a while since I've looked at this, but I don't believe your :client-secret is needed or even used by slack-register-team. You just need to supply the :token, or at least that's all I am doing.

In other words, I think you just need this in your authinfo file

machine yourchannel.slack.com login token password xoxs-yyyyyyyyyy... 

and this in your config

(slack-register-team
 ;; other stuff
 :token (auth-source-pick-first-password
               :host '("yourchannel.slack.com")
               :user "token" :type 'netrc :max 1)
 ; other stuff
)

[ealvar3z]

Oh, I see what you're saying. I added the client secret in case you do not want to manually type the password for your encrypted .gpg file every time it gets called.