Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

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@xxxxxxxx>
augroup encrypted
au!

" First make sure nothing is written to ~/.viminfo while editing
" an encrypted file.
autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.gpg set viminfo=
" We don't want a swap file, as it writes unencrypted data to disk
autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.gpg set noswapfile
" Switch to binary mode to read the encrypted file
autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.gpg set bin
autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.gpg let ch_save = &ch|set ch=2
autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost *.gpg '[,']!gpg --decrypt 2> /dev/null
" Switch to normal mode for editing
autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost *.gpg set nobin
autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost *.gpg let &ch = ch_save|unlet ch_save
autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost *.gpg execute ":doautocmd BufReadPost " . expand("%:r")

" Convert all text to encrypted text before writing
autocmd BufWritePre,FileWritePre *.gpg '[,']!gpg --default-key=80BF97AA --default-recipient-self -ae 2>/dev/null
" Undo the encryption so we are back in the normal text, directly
" after the file has been written.
autocmd BufWritePost,FileWritePost *.gpg u
augroup END

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