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Scrt: A CLI secret manager for developers, sysadmins and DevOps
- johng 7mo agoLooks like every other CLI manager I've ever seen. It says not ready for production use. What's different for this than the others?
- opan 7mo agoDangerously close to "scrot" which is both an X11 screenshot tool and general slang for a screenshot.
- voidfunc 7mo agoIve been working with Linux for 25ish years and have never heard of scrot. I think there's low probability of confusion lol.
- imcritic 7mo agoSame. First time hearing about scrot.
- opan 7mo agoReally? That's surprising. I guess if you mostly used it on servers or if you used default GNOME/KDE you might not run into it. It was the go-to screenshot tool for anyone using openbox, i3, most small WMs. A more universal tool than whatever DE-specific thing GNOME would use. You run it from the CLI, but commonly you'd bind a key to run your one-liner(s) of choice. Commonly used to do crop-style screenshots similar to what macOS binds to cmd-shift-4. Tons of people I know were using it for years. It was somewhat overtaken by maim in later years, and then on Wayland replaced by slurp/grim, but I still call screenshots "scrots" a lot of the time.
- ComputerGuru 7mo agoPossibly of interest to readers (but not directly competing) is securestore, our open-source, open-protocol, cross-language framework (cli tool + libraries) for securely storing secrets and programmatically retrieving them in production: https://neosmart.net/blog/securestore-open-secrets-format/ https://neosmart.net/blog/securestore-open-secrets-format/ donet version: https://github.com/neosmart/SecureStore https://github.com/neosmart/SecureStore rust version: https://github.com/neosmart/securestore-rs https://github.com/neosmart/securestore-rs (This one is production ready)
- moontear 7mo agoI thought SOPS with age is what we were doing now. Do we need yet another tooling? https://github.com/getsops/sops https://github.com/getsops/sops
- patabyte 7mo agoSOPS with Age is simple, and simple is good. I strongly recommend this approach.
- sam_lowry_ 7mo agoSOPS is simple? You are kidding me. Pass from https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/ fame is simple. SOPS is ultra-complicated for a security tool.
- sevg 7mo agoI dunno, it seems mostly simple to me. You have a .sops.yaml with some Age public keys, and then you run “sops secrets.yml” to create an encrypted file.
- jmholla 7mo agoCan you explain what you find complicated about sops? I've used it with ease for the last two years, both personally and professionally.
- oulipo2 7mo agoThere's also https://github.com/jdx/fnox https://github.com/jdx/fnox
- moontear 7mo ago"also" is a strong word for a project this young. It was started in October 2025, does not have any issues (at all) and is completely vibe coded. Not starting a discussion about security & vibe coding now, but I wouldn't blindly recommend such a nascent project if compared to something mature like SOPS.
- oulipo2 7mo agoHow does it compare to https://github.com/jdx/fnox https://github.com/jdx/fnox
- microheart 7mo agoI wonder what does the solution do differently than the rest of the CLI managers?
- Arrowmaster 7mo agoThe latest release was June 2022 and the last non dependabot commit was March 2023, until new activity 4 days ago using AI. Why should anyone use this?