Store and use secure passwords in bash

secure_bash_passwords.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Mixing in python with bash we can easily retrieve our passwords securely in our shell scripts.
# Read this first: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/SecurityPhilosophy
# Make sure your distro has gnome-keyring-daemon installed and running at login,
# as well as python-keyring installed (sudo apt-get install python-keyring)
##
# Follow these steps to see what it does. Verify by looking in Seahorse for your password.
##

# To make it easier for you, we'll setup the variables first
_PWNAME="Luggage" # A placeholder name for this password in the keychain
_ME="$(whoami)"   # Logged in users name
_PW="12345"       # Example password

# First, you need to store the password
python -c "import keyring;keyring.set_password('""$_PWNAME""','""$_ME""','""$_PW""')"

# If this command didn't print anything it should be stored.
# Accessing it is even easier:

PASSWORD=$(python -c "import keyring;print keyring.get_password('""$_PWNAME""', '""$_ME""')")
echo "$PASSWORD" # this should return the string '12345'