Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux
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On 25-Jan-08, at 1:25 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice
and powerful FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain" on Mac
OS X.
I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote login using
SSH and look at some passwords that I have forgotten.
vim + gpg
vim can be configured to automatically use gpg to decrypt *.gpg files
when they're read and re-encrypt thenm when saving. The decrypted data
never touches the disk (though encrypting your swap partition too
wouldn't
hurt).
Dump the following in your .vimrc:
" Transparent editing of gpg encrypted files.
" By Wouter Hanegraaff <wouter@blub.net>
My variation of that.... uses openssl and blowfish....
Note - don't do :wq if you use this - because if the passwords
don't match it doesn't write it - but it does quit :-)
You have to get in the habit of :w and then :q
Brian
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" Transparent editing of bf encrypted files.
" Originally By Wouter Hanegraaff <wouter@blub.net>
" with alterations for bf by bmckee
" note the file must be encrypted with the -a and -salt options
augroup encrypted
au!
" First make sure nothing is written to ~/.viminfo while editing
" an encrypted file.
autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.bf set viminfo=
" We don't want a swap file, as it writes unencrypted data to disk
autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.bf set nobackup
" We don't want a backup
autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.bf set nowritebackup
" We don't want an inprogress backup either
autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.bf set noswapfile
" Switch to binary mode to read the encrypted file
autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.bf set bin
autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.bf let ch_save = &ch|set ch=2
autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost *.bf '[,']!openssl bf -d -
salt -a 2> /dev/null
" Switch to normal mode for editing
autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost *.bf set nobin
autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost *.bf let &ch = ch_save|unlet
ch_save
autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost *.bf execute ":doautocmd
BufReadPost " . expand("%:r")
" Convert all text to encrypted text before writing
autocmd BufWritePre,FileWritePre *.bf '[,']!openssl enc -bf
- -salt -a 2>/dev/null
" Undo the encryption so we are back in the normal text, directly
" after the file has been written.
autocmd BufWritePost,FileWritePost *.bf u
augroup END
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