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Re: Pass: A standard Unix password manager

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How does this compare to other popular solutions? Specifically, KeepassX / Keepass2 which are the most common solutions I've seen most Unix / Linux users employ. Can we objectively state which one is a better solution?

Objective difference: KeePass encrypts the names of the websites where you have accounts. I would not want to live without this feature.

Re: Pass: A standard Unix password manager

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Pass is pretty awesome, but nowadays I've switched to gopass: https://github.com/justwatchcom/gopass - much better support for teams, structured secrets, binary secrets and quite a few other improvements. Oh, and it's (mostly) drop-in compatible.

Looks nice. Unfortunately I would never use it for teams as it doesn't have audit logs. These are very useful in case a user is compromised - you can lookup which passwords he accessed and only change those. Same goes if the user left the team and u want to make sure all accesses are revoked.

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Re: Pass: A standard Unix password manager

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Using this and something like rofi-pass: https://github.com/carnager/rofi-pass/ Gets me really close to the holy grail of password managers. Browser integration is possible too with PassFF: https://github.com/passff/passff

For me, browser integration is an anti-feature for password managers.

Re: Pass: A standard Unix password manager

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With all the discussion about 1password and its decision to "more or less" move to the web and a subscription based model, I had a TODO to look at what the open source community had; especially regarding browser plug-ins, mobile apps, etc. I don't understand why a simple problem like password management, needs a subscription and a private company to create software for the problem.

This post seems to have saved me the trouble of Googling myself. I am installing on the Mac and iOS as we speak.

Re: Pass: A standard Unix password manager

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I don't like the fact someone with access to my hard-drive can figure out all the services I'm using just by looking at the filenames. It's convenient yes, but I prefer one encrypted file that contains it all.

This shouldn't really be an issue if you're using full disk encryption.

Re: Pass: A standard Unix password manager

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>- You need to handle X integration yourself by piping to xclip, or similar (or just cut and pasting from terminal) Wrong, pass provides the -c flag which puts it in your clipboard and clears it after a timeout.

So it does, yes. I forgot about that, since I needed to write my own wrapper to paste both username and password (stored on separate lines) anyway. Thank you for the correction, I'll update my post.

There is also QtPass (GUI around pass), and various browser extensions (e.g. BrowserPass).

Of course one has to set it up, it's not an integrated solution. But GPG provides interesting features like storing encryption keys on hardware devices. Some devices like Yubikeys can have touch-to-use enabled. So each use of a secret requires a touch (after PIN but that's once a session). Perfect combination of convenience and security for me.

Re: Pass: A standard Unix password manager

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I don't like the fact someone with access to my hard-drive can figure out all the services I'm using just by looking at the filenames. It's convenient yes, but I prefer one encrypted file that contains it all.

yeah, from a security point of view it's similar to have one file or multiple ones encrypted with the same key
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