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Re: Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?

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Unix pass [0] [0] https://www.passwordstore.org/

I love it on Linux, but has anyone else had it perform really poorly on macos? Last time I had a MacBook, it wasnt even close to the instantaneous speed of pass on Linux- more like seconds for every command.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?

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post #8

Unix pass [0] [0] https://www.passwordstore.org/

I love it on Linux, but has anyone else had it perform really poorly on macos? Last time I had a MacBook, it wasnt even close to the instantaneous speed of pass on Linux- more like seconds for every command.

I use it intensively on Mac and not had that problem.

Since it interfaces with GPG I would suspect something to do with how your gpg configuration is set up (is it trying to talk to a gpg-agent or possibly a pin-entry program that is timing out or something like that). Intrinsically what it does is completely trivial in terms of compute etc.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?

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post #8

Unix pass [0] [0] https://www.passwordstore.org/

Fwiw, the biggest downside of it is multiple user functionality.

It's doable, but you have to import the public gpg key of everybody who needs to access the secrets. Effectively, every secret ends up encrypted with the public key of every user who needs access - not sure how scalable it would be if you have more than a small team of people accessing it this way.

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