Here, read a helpful intro to password managers from Mozilla. Options, free ones even, to synchronise passwords across your computing See? The solution is easy because we’re in the future and there are many The main difficulty is choosing which option, because there are annoyingly many. Some people regard syncing passwords over the internet as a bug not a feature, because it is more secure than keeping all your passwords on one computer and using that for everything. Maybe if I were a secret agent I would keep one computer with special ultra-secret passwords on it alone, and would live with the awkward problem of how to back up that computer while still satisfying my paranoia.īut I am a normal person operating in the 21st century. I need to use many different computers and OSes to get through the day, and 1/3 of my computers are broken most of the time, hard drives are constantly dying and I lose things. I am prepared to pay a cost in security to use a password manager that syncs across the computers, for the 90% of my passwords that are low-security ones that I do not care about, so that I actually use it. Thing here it GPG-encrypts everything in text files. There are plugins for its friendly open format for various browsers. Password management should be simple and follow Unix philosophy. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies,Ĭopied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whoseįilename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. Pass makes managing these individual password files extremely easy.Īll passwords live in ~/.password-store, and pass provides Standard command line file management utilities. Some nice commands for adding, editing, generating, #SYNC MACPASS AND MINIKEEPASS PASSWORD# It’s disconcertingly freeform, but allows for integration, It’s capable of temporarily putting passwords on your clipboard It is a very short and simple shell script.
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