Encrypt your passwords with pass
Concept
Pass is a standard unix password manager which uses GPG encryption underthehood to encrypt and store passwords and many other things.
Info
Password management should be simple and follow Unix philosophy. With
pass, each password lives inside of agpgencrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities.
This assumes that you have a GPG key, and have pass installed. pass uses a “password store”, just a directory (usually ~/.password-store), to store your passwords.
Prerequistics
- Install pass:
sudo pacman -S pass - Generate gpg key:
gpg --full-generate-key - Remember your key or for see again it
gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG - Initialize your key
pass init "gpg-key"
Usecase
Add new password
- Add new password to database
pass insert xyz.com - Add multi line password
pass insert -m abc.com
Generate Random password
pass generate myloginIt will generate complex password like this$(-QF&Q=IN2nFBxand store it to database
Show passwords
- Enter
passto see a list of your saved password - See your password
pass xyz.com
Copy password to clipboard
pass -c xyz.com
You can edit the existing password
pass edit xyz.com
Remove passwords from store
pass remove xyz.com
Manual Decryption
- manually decrypting .gpg file
- change directory to where is your gpg keys located
- Type
gpg -d testsite.com.gpg - enter your passphrase
Using with passmenu
Passmenu is handy tool to use this pass utility very convenient way. Accessing Password from dmenu
Install passmenu
pacman -S passmenu
- create an keybinding for passmenu in sxhkd or window manager
- passmenu copies the password into clipboard for 45 sec
- and also add this line into passmenu file to get notify `notify-send “Password for $password copied to clipboard for 45sec.”