gphotos-uploader-cli: Keychain backend not working on macOS

Describe the bug The keychain backend is not working on macOS.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

brew install gphotosuploader/tap/gphotos-uploader-cli
Run gphotos-uploader-cli init
Edit config.hjson and set SecretsBackendType to keychain.
Run gphotos-uploader-cli push

Expected behavior Be able to run the program without further user interaction whilst having the Google Photos credentials safely stored in the macOS keychain.

Actual behavior

gphotos-uploader-cli push
[info]   Reading configuration from '~/.gphotos-uploader-cli/config.hjson'
[error]  Token manager could not be started, err: Specified keyring backend not available
[fatal]  token manager could not be started, type:keychain, err: Specified keyring backend not available

Desktop & Client versions (please complete the following information):

Operating System: macOS Catalina 10.15.7
Version gphotos-uploader-cli v3.1.0

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 15 (8 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Upgrade golang.org/x/term On macOS Catalina (10.15.7) building from source resulted in SIGSEV when reading the password from stdin. See #302 for details. Upgrading the golang.org/x/term to the lates... — committed to mlangenberg/gphotos-uploader-cli by mlangenberg 3 years ago

Most upvoted comments

FYI, after upgrading golang.org/x/term, the keychain secrets backend also works for my own compilation. Do you think that this will also fix the issue for the binary that is distributed through homebrew?

mlangenberg on Sep 10, 2021

As a temporary workaround, you can add the passphrase manually to the macOS keychain.

Then set GPHOTOS_CLI_TOKENSTORE_KEY environment variable, with the output of security find-generic-password -a $USER -s name_of_item -w in a wrapper script before calling gphotos-uploader-cli push.

mlangenberg on Sep 7, 2021