Text config file encryption on Linux system for security

Question

I plan to use newsbeuter for console RSS reading. This program has a config text file where I need to store my Google account password, in order to access my Google reader.

I don't feel easy at making my password readable to everyone.

Is there anyway I can somehow encrypt this information ?

Answer 1

You could:

• Encrypt your home directory
• Use google per application passwords, which are part of the two factor authentication system they added recently, in order to support "legacy" applications than don't understand two-factor auth.