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firelizzard
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3 years ago

Calling the CLI from a Go program

I'm working on a Go program and I want to call op , using the PolKit/app integration so a dialog appears prompting the user to type in their password. This works when I run op directly from my she...
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Former Member
3 years ago

After playing around a little more it seems to be certain criteria that needs to be fulfilled to make it work. You can not just run your Go program using go run main.go for example. The executable needs to be in some system executable dir like /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. The executable needs to be owned by root, chown root:root exe and the permissions needs to be 755, chmod 755 exe. I haven't played around extensively with different users and permissions.
I've tried to run the exe from a path in my home dir (/home/$USER/bin) that's in the path $PATH but I don't seem to be able to run the exe in that dir and make it work even if the owner is root and permissions are 755 (rwxr-xr-x).

I'm planning to do the following to continue to develop the Go.

  1. Disable "Connect with 1Password CLI"
  2. Add a function to handle op signin session tokens
  3. Develop
  4. Test
  5. During release move the compiled binary to /usr/bin and change user to root and permissions to 755
  6. Enable "Connect with 1Password CLI"