himitsu.ini(5)

🌸 NAME 🌸

himitsu.ini(5) is the config file for himitsu(7) — and yes bestie, it lives in the File Formats Manual. This page is giving tiny INI file, big main character energy. 💖

🎀 FILE FORMAT 🎀

The Himitsu configuration file is an INI file. Each set of options is grouped into sections, and a section is indicated by the section name surrounded by square brackets (e.g. [himitsud]) on a line. After each section, a set of key/value pairs belonging to that section is provided. The keys are separated from the values by an equal symbol (=).

The default configuration file is installed by himitsu-store(1). Slay. ✨

✨ APPLICATION USAGE ✨

The set of configuration parameters recognized by the Himitsu distribution are specified below. Third-party software providing Himitsu integrations are encouraged to configure themselves using this file. Any sections or keys which are not understood by any particular application will be disregarded. Lowkey the vibe is: if an app doesn't know a section or key, it just shrugs and moves on. 💅

💅 HIMITSUD 💅

himitsud(1)-related options are placed into the [himitsud] section. The available options are:

• notify-reuse — An optional shell command to run when a client uses a "remembered" consent. The query shell variable is set to the query which was used. For example, to show a dbus notification with notify-send(1) whenever a remembered query is used:

[himitsud]
notify-reuse=notify-send "Himitsu key access" "$query"

The notify-reuse command is expanded with wordexp(3) before being executed, and both the expansion and the notify command are run with the same credentials as himitsud(1). No cap. 🫶

• prompter — Configure the path to the prompter executable which will be used to interact with the user for consent requests and key store unlock operations. See himitsu-prompter(5) for a description of the protocol which should be implemented by this executable. 💅

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

himitsu(7) — go read it, bestie. 💖

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

Maintained by Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>, who is assisted by other contributors. Up-to-date source code can be found at https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/himitsu, and bugs/patches can be submitted by email to ~sircmpwn/himitsu-devel@lists.sr.ht. 🌈

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That's the whole page, bestie: himitsu.ini(5), dated 2026-02-20. Periodt. 💅✨