On Tue Aug 11, 2026 at 9:14 AM CEST, David Dahlberg wrote: David, Sure! But, please note that I am not an expert and, for now, I only use OpenBSD as a wonderful UNIX learning experience.
I don't think you can make it work without operating as root, because at least you must create a fake dev/shm under / and mount it as mfs. Here is step-by-step what I did following the suggestion of Broke: 1) become root $ doas -s 2) create /dev/shm (if you stop here, pass doesn't complain anymore, but obviously it's a fake, because he doesn't realize that it's not a real shm) # mkdir /dev/shm 3) change permissions (I copied /dev/shm permissions from a linux machine) # chmod 1777 /dev/shm 4) mount /dev/shm as mfs # mount -t mfs -o rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=512m /dev/sd2b /dev/shm (my swap partition is /sd2b, check yours) 5) $ pass edit your/password In this way password-store does not complain anymore... 6) When you're done, unmount /dev/shm $ doas umount /dev/shm 7) throw /dev/shm away $ doas rm -rf /dev/shm (be careful not to delete your root directory...) If you want it permanent, add a /etc/fstab line (i.e. swap /dev/shm mfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,-s=512m 0 0) In the meanwhile, I found and even simpler way that seems to work either, provided /tmp is permanently mounted as mfs. Create a symlink named /dev/shm pointing to /tmp. Full stop. $ doas ln -s /tmp /dev/shm PS Probably, if you have tmp as mfs, all this is not really needed, because if you answer yes to the pass's warning on /dev/shm lacking it should proceed editing your password in tmp anyway... Ciao! David > Can you please send me step-by-step instructions on how you did it exactly? I > had a way of doing it on OpenBSD once, which doesn't work anymore for some > time, so I removed it. > > Can we omit root - or at least handle it propperly? I think, this was the > reason why I was not able to convert pass to mfs yet … > > >> Am 2026-08-10 um 16:02 schrieb David Conversi <[email protected]>: >> >> On Mon Aug 10, 2026 at 1:51 PM CEST, broke wrote: >>> Did it solve the problem? >> >> Yes, it worked! I created /dev/shm, set the right permissions and mounted on >> mfs with the mount command according >> to the man page. Thank you! >>
