On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:57, Angel L. Mateo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for posting in spanish. I thought I was writting to the spanish > list :-( > > The question is that I need a password manager that runs on linux and > windows. > > Now, we are using mypasswordsafe (I don't know the specific program > runned in windows by my partners). To share the password database, we > use subversion. > > The problem we have is that the file generated by mypasswordsafe is in > binary mode, so we have problems with subversion: sometimes the file is > modified by two of us and this generates conflicts in subversion > (because it can't merge them) that we have to solve manually. > > So, I'm looking for a password manager (compatible with linux and > windows) that stores the database in a text file (of course, with the > password crypted) or, at least, that generates a file per password > entry.
Well, a text file that is encrypted is a binary file as far as svn is concerned, unless you write some sort of extension to allow svn to decrypt it, which sounds fraught with danger, and perhaps rather difficult. The first thing that comes to my mind is to use a true multi-user system of some sort, like [my|postgre]sql or ldap. This seems fairly complicated, and I am not sure of the details of how this would be setup. The other thing that now comes to mind is to keep one copy of a gpg encrypted text file and to access it with ssh (putty on Windows) (vim, etc have plugins to automatically decrypt gpg encrypted files). Or if you can specify the location of mypasswordsafe files, set it to a network share, and all use the same one. Or maybe there is a password manager out there that has multi-user sync built in, although I have never seen one like this. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
