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Ryan_Parman
4 years agoDedicated Contributor
Apple Watch stalls-out when a plethora of authentication requests come through
As a software engineer, I regularly use iTerm with multiple tabs, and multiple split-screen sessions per tab. So after I reboot my computer and re-open iTerm, I suddenly get hit with 10–40 1Password ...
Ryan_Parman
4 years agoDedicated Contributor
It's a blend of op calls happening in ~/.profile, and maybe a ssh -T git@github.com to validate my key.
I've had more than one experience where some piece of software ends up logging all of my environment variables to a logfile, then that logfile gets pushed out to the internet. (One of those times was when I worked at AWS before IAM existed and root credentials for the AWS account that everyone in the SDK/Console teams used ended up on the internet. Certain features of IAM, Athena, and the https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets repo are my fault.)
Essentially, I've been moving credentials out of plain text files and into 1Password. Presently I'm sourcing them from op into my current shell session, but I think I want to write something like AWS Vault that can fetch a token and pass it to a command running inside a sub-shell so that the credential never gets exposed to the parent-most scope of the current shell session. But that's a whole other topic.
Right now, it's just my Apple Watch getting overwhelmed when ~/.profile gets executed many times in rapid succession, which I've narrowed down to a single op call, and a single ssh call.