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author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Sat Sep 03 09:28:15 2022 +0000 (2022-09-03) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/pass/description.txt Sat Sep 03 09:28:15 2022 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ 1.4 +Password management should be simple and follow Unix philosophy. 1.5 +With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file 1.6 +whose filename is the title of the website or resource that 1.7 +requires the password. 1.8 +These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder 1.9 +hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, 1.10 +manipulated using standard command line file management utilities. 1.11 + 1.12 +Pass makes managing these individual password files extremely easy. 1.13 +All passwords live in ~/.password-store, and pass provides some 1.14 +nice commands for adding, editing, generating, and retrieving 1.15 +passwords. 1.16 +It is a very short and simple shell script. 1.17 +It's capable of temporarily putting passwords on your clipboard 1.18 +and tracking password changes using git. 1.19 + 1.20 +You can edit the password store using ordinary unix shell commands 1.21 +alongside the pass command. 1.22 +There are no funky file formats or new paradigms to learn. 1.23 +There is bash completion so that you can simply hit tab to fill in 1.24 +names and commands, as well as completion for zsh and fish available 1.25 +in the completion folder. 1.26 +The very active community has produced many impressive clients and 1.27 +GUIs for other platforms as well as extensions for pass itself.