juliangruber / juliangruber/vipe

Allow setting temporary directory path

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Description

A potential use case for vipe is editing an encrypted file; `decrypt | vipe | encrypt`

Currently vipe always saves the temporary file to `/tmp/` which on many systems is a tmpfs. However, tmpfs can be swapped thus resulting in sensitive data being written to disk. To solve this we can create a ramfs which cannot be swapped, but we would need to be able to configure vipe to use this directory. I imagine we could pass in a temporary directory something like this:

```
decrypt | vipe -t /myramdisk | encrypt
```

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Research direction

Start at vipe's command-line entry point and trace how it creates the temporary file; the issue names no file or test. Check how options are parsed, then verify that `vipe -t /myramdisk` uses the supplied directory while preserving the existing default behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
shell
Domain
cli, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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