Root-level age keys
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enhancement
keyservice/age
- Dominant language
- Go
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Description
In addition to the user's home directory, sops should look for age keys on the root-level: /etc/sops/age/keys.txt.
This is useful if you want your age keys to be owned by root instead of the user.
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Trace the existing age-key discovery entry point, especially how keys are loaded from the user's home directory. Add support for /etc/sops/age/keys.txt while retaining the existing lookup, then verify that both locations behave as expected in the relevant tests.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- cli, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 65/100