![]() ![]() ![]() It has the feature to copy to clipboard built-in.Each password lives inside a gpg encrypted file that can be organized using standard unix commands cp, mv, rm.It follows the Unix philosophy, it does one thing well and can be composable.When I was setting up my mutt/mbsync/msmtp to use gmail from the terminal (topic for another post), I’ve found that you have to enter your credentials in a plain text config file, I didn’t want to do that, and some other people also didn’t do that and they have a solution: pass with this simple cli utility I no longer have to write passwords in config files, it can be automated to consume the password from my store without intervention. The second issue was that when I tried to configure gmail with mutt I had to put my password in plain text in a file. Well I’ve started to have a couple of issues with my current setup, the main issue I was having was I have to keep a window open for the password manager, where I have to go search and copy/paste the data or ask to perform an auto type for me, I started to dislike this because as a developer I normally work only in 2 windows: the browser and a terminal, so that is why I started to look for an alternative. ![]() My initial way to keep my long list of passwords/secrets safe in my computer was using the password manager keepassxc it served well, the way to share this with my mobile was putting the kdbx file in Dropbox and use KeePassDroid app to be able to use my passwords on the go. ![]()
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