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| Title | Date | Author | Category | Slug | Header_Cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manage your passwords with pass | 2019-04-22 19:00 | Fabrice | software | password-store | images/cover_antennae.jpg |
As security breaches are discovered regularly, and so leakage happens, it is recommended to have a different password on each account. However, this task is obviously a pain to maintain by hand. I did use a notebook back in 2003, which I lost within a month, given that I'm a very organized person.
Hopefully, many password managers exist, with similar features: cross-platform (especially smartphone support), password generation,browser integration…
I'm not here to compare them, if you want to give a look, wikipedia provides a nice comparison table there.
However, thanks to moviuro, my choice is pass along with pass-otp (and passmenu). I don't intend either to make a comprehensive guide, as those already populate the internet, for example here.
To make it short, pass is a bash scripts using git, gpg written by zx2c4.
Here are just some of commands I often use.
pass generate -i <pass-name>
To regenerate a password, the -i is important to avoid overwritting the whole file and having to rely on dirty git to withdraw your mistake (pass <cmd> will automatically commit your change)… I sometimes forget it, so let's put it here as a reminder.
pass git <whatever you want>
To do whatever you want with git, especially dirty git 😉