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I'll use this as an opportunity to give a shout out for my own unix password manager that I started writing because I did not like some design choices of pass:
by gioele 12y ago
I'll use this as an opportunity to give a shout out for my own unix password manager that I started writing because I did not like some design choices of pass: pw [1].
From the homepage:
> pw is an alternative to pass, keepassx and other similar programs.
> The main points of pw are:
> * The passwords are stored using a simple line-based text format.
> * Passwords can be protected using public-key encryption or symmetric encryption. Or both.
> * No information about the accounts is stored in clear-text.
> * All the work is done using only GPG and Unix tools.
> * The output is easy to use in pipeline with other tools.
> * Follows the XDG Base Directory specification: no clutter in your home directory.
[1] https://github.com/gioele/pw https://github.com/gioele/pw
- 1amzave 12y agoThat looks neat -- I've been using a somewhat similar little home-baked thing of my own (simple shell script wrapping gpg), largely because I wanted a simple command-line password manager and this 'pass' thing I've been seeing linked in various places strikes me as (a) pretty poorly designed and (b) quite over-sold -- e.g. its author declaring it "standard" when it's clearly nothing of the sort is rather off-putting. There've been patches posted on the xmonad development mailing list recently adding support for it, but I'm really hoping they don't get integrated because I don't view encouraging increased use of it as a good thing.