[Nix-dev] Best way to store strong passwords in nix configuration file

[4levels]

Hi Markus, Guillaume and Fabian

first of all, thank you all for your productive replies!
I have resorted for now to use passwords without any special and unicode
characters (as that might have been the actual issue here).
Moving the password to different files seems a bit difficult as I need them
to generate config files for various applications, and I need a lot of them
(for each client I easily have 10 different passwords / keys).
As soon as I managed to get stronger passwords to work, I'll be glad to
report back here how I did it ;-)

Kind regards and keep up the great attitude, you guys rock!

Erik

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:16 PM Fabian Schmitthenner <
fabian at schmitthenner.eu> wrote:

> Hi Erik,
>
> besides " and \ also ${ needs to be escaped as written in the manual
> (https://nixos.org/nix/manual/ Section 15.1).
>
> Fabian
>
> On 01/12/2016 03:48 PM, 4levels wrote:
> > Hi Nix Devs,
> >
> > I'm really struggling to get strong passwords correctly parsed in my nix
> > configuration files.  I keep getting errors about unexpected $end or
> > $undefined at wrong places (eg. there is no $ or ; anywhere near the
> > reported failure).
> > Deleting the passwords from the nix config file solves this, so the
> > error is definitely related to the contents of these strings.
> >
> > I'm using a random password generator to create strong passwords, like
> > ETrai_5{h'aG,MQ:
> > I've tried writing them with double quotes, double single quotes and
> > single quotes, with and without escaping, all to no avail.  I also can't
> > seem to find a list of the characters that should be escaped (I only see
> > " and \ and those are not in those passwords.
> >
> > Do you have any tips on how to store many different strong password and
> > use it in nix configuration files?  I need those passwords to be in an
> > object structure so I can build custom config files from them.
> >
> > For the record, I'm using git-crypt to prevent these files from being
> > read by unauthorized clients / people
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Erik
> >
> >
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