Regarding metamask integration

[anithakc6]

Can I deploy and write date using the commans, connecting to metamask and giving signer to these commands?
The reason is I don't want to share the private key.
Thanks in advance

[treeder]

No, this won't work with metamask, metamask requires a web app.

[anithakc6]

Thanks for the quick reply, so storing the private key is the only way we have to proceed doing write operations? but its not secured way right?

[treeder]

It's as secure as you make it. If you're the only one accessing the command line on that computer, it should be fine. If it's a shared computer, I wouldn't do it. But also depends what you're doing and how secure that key needs to be. Metamask is used so websites don't steal your key, the web3 cli isn't a website you don't trust, so it's a much different use case.

[anithakc6]

Great, thanks for the answers, appreciate your time