Prompt for password in ente-decrypt binary

[ziadoz]

It would be nice if the ente-decrypt binary prompted the user for their decryption password, instead of it being a positional parameter, which will be recorded in your Bash/ZSH history.

Before:

ente-decrypt in.txt <password> out.txt

After:

ente-decrypt in.txt out.txt

Please enter your password:

In the short term I've added the entire command to my history ignores to avoid password leakage:

export HISTORY_IGNORE='(ente-decrypt*)'

[mnvr]

Not to take away from this feature request (I also feel it's a valid use case) but a common thing that I do is start a command with a space. On the two shells that I've used recently (bash and zsh), this prevents the command from being saved into history.

[ziadoz]

@mnvr Ah, I didn't know that. I'll remember that in future. 👍

[ua741]

Thank you for flagging this issue. We have deprecated this tool and added this functionality inside the Ente CLI tool.

You can download the latest build from here, and use the following command to decrypt.

./ente auth decrypt in.txt out.txt