[freedomben]

I put mine in various aes encrypted file (like `~/.secrets.aes`) and then source it explicitly when needed with:

    . <(aescrypt -d -o - ~/.secrets.aes)

I have a handful of aliases/functions to make it more smooth, but that's the core.

[maccard]

Where are those aliases stored?

[freedomben]

The AES encrypted file has some, plus a bunch of exported env vars. I do keep one function in my ~/.bashrc to make it simpler to invoke so I can do `source-secret ~/.secrets.aes`:

    source-secret()                                                                                                                                               
    {                                                                                                                                                             
      if [ -z "$1" ]; then                                                                                                                                        
        echo "Need filename to source"                                                                                                                            
      elif ! [ -f "$1" ]; then                                                                                                                                    
        echo "File '$1' does not exist"                                                                                                                           
      elif ! which aescrypt >/dev/null 2>&1; then                                                                                                                 
        echo "Could not find required dependency 'aescrypt'"                                                                                                      
      else                                                                                                                                                        
          . <(aescrypt -d -o - "$1")                                                                                                                              
      fi                                                                                                                                                          
    }

[AnyTimeTraveler]

In that AES encrypted file.

It's a shellscript that they encrypted. They decrypt it and feed the decrypted output immediately into the shell, to be sourced.

That encrypted secrets file could contain any shellscript, so the aliases are stored in there, together with the API-Keys and passwords.