pa...@quillandmouse.com writes: > On Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:48:14 -0600 > John Hasler <j...@sugarbit.com> wrote: > > > Why does "accepted/popular" matter? > > Not a great choice of words, perhaps. I was thinking in terms of those > password managers which are written by others and included in the > Debian repositories. > > As it happens, pass(1) appeared to be precisely what I was looking for. > My original code stores all passwords in a single file, whereas pass > stores each password in a separate file. In addition, I don't need pass > in order to decode the password files. If pass every goes away or > disappears from the Debian repos, I can still fetch my passwords (and > associated data). Plus, it will insert any line in the password file > into the clipboard. And it's a terminal app. Yay. > Hi Paul,
And pass(1) is an sh(1)/bash(1) script, making it expediently configurable, with or without pass(1), as you say. John -- John Conover, cono...@panix.com, http://www.johncon.com/