Great tip, simple and effective. Thanks!
I was biased by reference to /dev/shm, but on the other hand...I learned a
lot!

Il gio 13 ago 2026, 08:47 Maksim Rodin <[email protected]> ha scritto:

> Why not just use "pass insert your_old_pass_id"
> instead of "pass edit your_old_pass_id"?
>
> It just warns the user that this password entry already exists and
> asks if the user wants to overwrite it. The user hits "y" and
> the old password gets successfully overwritten with the new one, with no
> /dev/shm complaints.
>
> On Mon Aug 10 13:16:43 2026, David Conversi wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm a happy new user of OpenBSD since 7.7 on my lenovo t470 laptop.
> > This is my first message to the list, hope it is appropriate.
> >
> > When I try to edit a password with pass, I receive this warning:
> >
> > "Your system does not have /dev/shm, which means that it may
> > be difficult to entirely erase the temporary non-encrypted
> > password file after editing."
> >
> > However, I put my tmp on mfs, does this solve the problem?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Regards
> > David
> >
>
> --
> Best regards
> Maksim Rodin
>
> С уважением,
> Родин Максим
>

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