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Integrate with credential-storages #133

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Currently kafkactl stores passwords (for sasl or maybe tls certs in the future) inside config file. It is not secure because passwords available for any application running from current user.
I want to discuss about integration with special credential storage. I.e. Docker uses https://github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers to interact with keychain, wincred, etc.
I propose to use https://github.com/99designs/keyring library because it has integration with many system storages and truly cross-platform encrypted-file based storage. But kafkactl built with disabled cgo and keychain backend requires it. User can specify global storage backends settings in config.
Flow may look like this: when something requires passwords kafkactl attempts to find it by "context key" (context name+auth method type or certificate fingerprint). If credentials was not found user will be prompted for them. Credentials may be reset with commandline flag.
Any thoughs?

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