Sharing credentials with the VM

[msimkunas]

How would you approach storing credentials, such as Docker or NPM auth tokens, with the Lima VM?

I can imagine one way to do it would be to mount the .docker/ directory and the .npmrc file from the host so that the guest can write to those locations and the credentials can be persisted on the host but perhaps there are better ways?

[afbjorklund]

I think this is fully opt-in, as in you need to handle it yourself? There is proxy propagation, with propagateProxyEnv and ssh agent propagation, with ssh.forwardAgent. But not for other credentials, as far as I know. Unless mounting the home directory counts...

[msimkunas]

Yeah, I realize there's no built-in mechanism for this, nor do I expect one. Was interested to learn how others manage this.

I'm thinking about mounting a directory which contains secret files, such as Docker auth credentials. One problem with this approach is that it is impossible to mount single files. .npmrc is stored in the user's home directory so the only workaround currently is to place this file in a directory on the host, mount this directory and then symlink .npmrc in the guest's home directory to the file on the mounted directory but this feels a bit clumsy.