[ale] Of password managers and family...

[Solomon Peachy]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 03:55:16PM -0400, Joey Kelly wrote:
> I do not trust any foggy service to hold my passwords. I am a hardcore geek 
> and enjoy bash, so I decided to spin up yet another half-finished project to 
> vault my passwords a year or so ago, using Perl and AES. My script asks me for 
> the master password, then lets me view or change any particular entry. I have 
> to manually copy and paste the passwords.

If you're comfortable with the comand line, I suggeste you check out 
'pass' -- it's described here:

https://lwn.net/Articles/714473/

It uss gpg to encrypt the passwords individually, and ties in with git 
to provide distribution/synchronization.

I'm quite happy with it, but there's no real way to use it from a phone.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
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