infrastructure/op_guide/secrets

you are new and want to access the secret repository

You need a GPG key to start with. You can generate one with:

gpg2 --expert --full-gen-key
# Personnaly I use `9) ECC and ECC`, `1) Curve 25519`, and `5y`

Now export your public key:

gpg2 --export --armor <your email address>

You can upload it to Gitea, it will then be available publicly easily. For example, you can access my key at this URL:

https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/quentin.gpg

You can import it to your keychain as follow:

gpg2 --import <(curl https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/quentin.gpg)
gpg2 --list-keys
# pub   ed25519/0xE9602264D639FF68 2022-04-19 [SC] [expire : 2027-04-18]
#  Empreinte de la clef = 8023 E27D F1BB D52C 559B  054C E960 2264 D639 FF68
# uid                  [  ultime ] Quentin Dufour <quentin@deuxfleurs.fr>
# sub   cv25519/0xA40574404FF72851 2022-04-19 [E] [expire : 2027-04-18]

How to read this snippet:

• the key id: E9602264D639FF68
• the key fingerprint: 8023 E27D F1BB D52C 559B 054C E960 2264 D639 FF68

Now, you need to:

1. Inform all other sysadmins that you have published your key
2. Check that the key of other sysadmins is the correct one.

To perform the check, you need another communication channel (ideally physically, otherwise through the phone, Matrix if you already trusted the other person, etc.)

Once you trust someone, sign its key:

gpg --edit-key email@example.com
# or
gpg --edit-key E9602264D639FF68
# gpg> lsign
# (say yes)
# gpg> save

Once you signed everybody, ask to a sysadmin to add your key to <secrets>/.gpg-id and then run:

pass init -p deuxfleurs $(cat ~/.password-store/deuxfleurs/.gpg-id)
cd ~/.password-store
git commit
git push

Now you are ready to install pass:

sudo apt-get install pass # Debian + Ubuntu
sudo yum install pass # Fedora + RHEL
sudo zypper in password-store # OpenSUSE
sudo emerge -av pass # Gentoo
sudo pacman -S pass # Arch Linux
brew install pass # macOS
pkg install password-store # FreeBSD

Go to passwordstore.org for more information about pass.

And then check that everything work:

pass show deuxfleurs

---

---

init

generate a new password store named deuxfleurs for you:

pass init -p deuxfleurs you@example.com

add a password in this store, it will be encrypted with your gpg key:

pass generate deuxfleurs/backup_nextcloud 20
# or
pass insert deuxfleurs/backup_nextcloud

add a teammate

edit ~/.password-store/acme/.gpg-id and add the id of your friends:

alice@example.com
jane@example.com
bob@example.com

make sure that you trust the keys of your teammates:

$ gpg --edit-key jane@example.com
gpg> lsign
gpg> y
gpg> save

Now re-encrypt the secrets:

pass init -p deuxfleurs $(cat ~/.password-store/deuxfleurs/.gpg-id)

They will now be able to decrypt the password:

pass deuxfleurs/backup_nextcloud

sharing with git

To create the repo:

cd ~/.password-store/deuxfleurs
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
# Set up remote
git push

To setup the repo:

cd ~/.password-store
git clone https://git.example.com/org/repo.git deuxfleurs

Ref

https://medium.com/@davidpiegza/using-pass-in-a-team-1aa7adf36592