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Rasi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 1,914

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KISS password management

Well, I thought about how I can make handling of passwords easily usable using only the tools I have installed anyway.
And here I want to share the result with you:

First thing to do is to create a password file, that is gpg encrypted. This file has one line for each service.

example:

PASSWORD1 USER1 amazon
PASSWORD2 USER2 ebay
PASSWORD3 USER3 archbbs

This file i search using a little bash script. Simply search for the keywords at the end of the line. The script will put the username in primary selection and the actual password in clipboard.
Script looks like this:

#!/bin/bash

while read -r pass user _; do
  printf %s "$user" | xclip
  printf %s "$pass" | xclip -sel clip
done < <(gpg2 --batch --decrypt PASSWORDFILE.gpg 2>/dev/null | grep "$@")
notify-send "Copied username to Primary and Passwort to Clipboard"
sleep 10
xclip -selection clipboard </dev/null
xclip </dev/null
notify-send "Clipboards cleared"

This little script I call with dmenu which simply reads a file with all those service names - one per line. This makes it easy to edit the dmenu script if your password file grows. Simply add another line with the name of the keyword.

The result looks something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LT3slnh3DE

Last edited by Rasi (2013-09-09 00:21:32)

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SanskritFritz

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2009-01-08

Posts: 1,924

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Re: KISS password management

/me likes it, although I doubt I'll switch from KeePass anytime soon.

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graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

Posts: 10,597

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Re: KISS password management

Seems nice but I don't I'll switch from pwsafe.

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progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,190

Re: KISS password management

Seems nice, but I don't like that all passwords are decrypted each time you select one. Won't switch from KeePass though. This lets me access the password database on windows, too. I'll keep pwsafe in mind, it seems to have a windows equivalent, too.

Last edited by progandy (2012-09-10 21:47:52)

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mjheagle8

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From: /home/mjheagle8

Registered: 2009-07-12

Posts: 186

Re: KISS password management

seems cool
i've been thinking of doing something similar for a while.

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