PWSafe Cross Platform password management tool.
Luca Sepe
Posted on June 1, 2019
Cross Platform simple and secure password management from commandline.
https://github.com/lucasepe/pwsafe
- Free open source software
Just a single portable binary file
Since the Password Safe file format is open-source and widely used, there are also compatible clients for many platforms.
You can choose to store all your passwords in a single encrypted master password database, or use multiple databases to further organize your passwords (work and home, for example).
Create a new password store (init)
| => pwsafe init -file test.dat
Secret phrase: *****
Secret phrase again: *****
š password store 'test.dat' successfully created
Add a new account info (push)
| => pwsafe push -file test.dat -url http://www.mysecretsite.com -user pinco.pallo@gmail.com -pass abbraadabbra "My Cool Site"
Secret phrase: *****
š record successfully pushed to store 'test.dat'
Show a summary of all records (list)
| => pwsafe list -file test.dat
Secret phrase: *****
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| /Users/lucasepe/Temp/test.dat |
+--------------+----------+-----------------------+-----------------------------+
| TITLE | CATEGORY | USERNAME | URL |
+--------------+----------+-----------------------+-----------------------------+
| My Cool Site | | pinco.pallo@gmail.com | http://www.mysecretsite.com |
+--------------+----------+-----------------------+-----------------------------+
Edit / Update a record (push)
| => pwsafe push -file test.dat -category Bank "My Cool Site"
Secret phrase: *****
š record successfully pushed to store 'test.dat'
View a record by it's title (pull)
| => pwsafe pull -file test.dat "my cool site"
Secret phrase: *****
+--------------------------------------------+
| /Users/lucasepe/Temp/test.dat |
+--------------------------------------------+
| TITLE : My Cool Site |
| GROUP : Bank |
| URL : http://www.mysecretsite.com |
| USERNAME : pinco.pallo@gmail.com |
| PASSWORD : abbraadabbra |
| NOTES : |
| LAST UPDATED : 2019-29-05 |
+--------------------------------------------+
Copy a specific field value to clipboard (clip)
Useful if you want to grab the password without showing the record content.
| => pwsafe clip -file test.dat "my cool site"
Secret phrase: *****
š check your clipboard for the content of the field 'pass'
- by default the password value is copied to clipboard (
-pass)- you can also specify
-urlor-user.
- you can also specify
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Luca Sepe
Posted on June 1, 2019
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