On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:25:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > 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).
Cool thanks for this > > Dump the following in your .vimrc: how to put this into a different file and include it from .vimrc ? Maybe this is worth sending in to be added to the vim packages ? > > " Transparent editing of gpg encrypted files. > " By Wouter Hanegraaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 > > -- > see shy jo -- "It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). I think it's a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up there and take a look at it, and you can make the determination as to how beautiful that country is." - George W. Bush 03/29/2001 White House press conference
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