Re: Password managers
paulf@quillandmouse.com writes:
> On Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:48:14 -0600
> John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> wrote:
>
> > Why does "accepted/popular" matter?
>
> Not a great choice of words, perhaps. I was thinking in terms of those
> password managers which are written by others and included in the
> Debian repositories.
>
> As it happens, pass(1) appeared to be precisely what I was looking for.
> My original code stores all passwords in a single file, whereas pass
> stores each password in a separate file. In addition, I don't need pass
> in order to decode the password files. If pass every goes away or
> disappears from the Debian repos, I can still fetch my passwords (and
> associated data). Plus, it will insert any line in the password file
> into the clipboard. And it's a terminal app. Yay.
>
Hi Paul,
And pass(1) is an sh(1)/bash(1) script, making it expediently
configurable, with or without pass(1), as you say.
John
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