Re: Password managers

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 06:08:04AM +0100, Oliver Schode wrote: > On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:58:17 -0500 > wrote: > >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

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On 2023-11-16, Oliver Schode wrote: > (hence almost all in-repo managers) and bash/git magic all but out of > the question for anyone also using mobile. I use bash and git on android with termux. Working easily with apt :)

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On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:58:17 -0500 wrote: >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.

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otherwise. What about Firefox then? Does it work with password managers with a D-Bus interface? keepassxc has a plugin for firefox Browser extension should be a significantly better option than using clipboard for passwords for various sites. (I hope, it is properly implemented.) I am unsure

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not applied otherwise. >> What about Firefox then? Does it work with password managers with a >> D-Bus interface? keepassxc has a plugin for firefox >> Pass(1) sets a timer and removes the password from the clipboard after >> that time has expired. > > I am unsure if l

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. What about Firefox then? Does it work with password managers with a D-Bus interface? If you have passwords saved by Firefox or Thunderbird then you have to set master passwords in these applications. It is not integrated with user-wide key rings: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id

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On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 23:38:58 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: > On 14/11/2023 09:58, paulf wrote: > > > > As it happens, pass(1) appeared to be precisely what I was looking > > for. > [...] > > Plus, it will insert any line in the password file > > into the clipboard. > > In general it is better to avo

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Does it work with password managers with a D-Bus interface?

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On 14/11/2023 09:58, paulf wrote: As it happens, pass(1) appeared to be precisely what I was looking for. [...] Plus, it will insert any line in the password file into the clipboard. In general it is better to avoid secrets copied to the clipboard. Even JavaScript from a web page might read

Re: Password managers

pa...@quillandmouse.com writes: > On Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:48:14 -0600 > John Hasler 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 o

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On Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:48:14 -0600 John Hasler 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) a

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Why does "accepted/popular" matter? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

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On 13/11/2023 21:29, Erwan David wrote: That was a bad idea : lokking closer I see that kpcli does not support the latest keepass file format (v4) Trying "apt search" I have noticed some python tool "secrets" having python3-pykeepass in its dependency. Does anybody use it (or at least have tr

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Le 13/11/2023 à 15:11, Klaus Singvogel a écrit : Erwan David wrote: Note that you may have less dependencies with kpcli (a cli client for keepass password files) I always was peering at kpcli. Do you have any experience switching between the CLI (kpcli) and the GUI (keepassxc) version frequen

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Erwan David wrote: > Note that you may have less dependencies with kpcli (a cli client for > keepass password files) I always was peering at kpcli. Do you have any experience switching between the CLI (kpcli) and the GUI (keepassxc) version frequently? Is this flawless possible to switch from t

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Am Sonntag, 12. November 2023, 18:23:20 CET schrieb Joe: What about kwallet? Should run on other window managers than plasma5 as well. Hans

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On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 22:07:33 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: > On 10/11/2023 01:48, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > KeepassXC if you want a primarily GUI solution which also happens to > > be open source. (There's also a command-line version keepassxc-cli > > which can either be driven from the command line

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Le 12/11/2023 à 16:53, Michael Kjörling a écrit : On 12 Nov 2023 22:07 +0700, from maniku...@gmail.com (Max Nikulin): Having system booted from Debian Live image (assume some disaster), how many packaged have to be installed to get access to passwords stored by KeePassXC? I don't know about Deb

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On 12 Nov 2023 22:07 +0700, from maniku...@gmail.com (Max Nikulin): > Having system booted from Debian Live image (assume some disaster), how many > packaged have to be installed to get access to passwords stored by > KeePassXC? I don't know about Debian Live images, but from an up-to-date install

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On 10/11/2023 01:48, Michael Kjörling wrote: KeepassXC if you want a primarily GUI solution which also happens to be open source. (There's also a command-line version keepassxc-cli which can either be driven from the command line or used interactively in a terminal session.) Having system boote

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On 10/11/2023 10:32, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 5:25 AM Timothy M Butterworth > wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 3:11 AM John Conover mailto:cono...@panix.com>> wrote: John Darrah writes: > On Thu, 2023-1

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On Thursday, 9 Nov 2023 at 12:46, Todd Zullinger wrote: > You may like pass[1]. It's a bash script which uses gpg, so > it's somewhat familiar to what you've written in a sense. +1 *and* it has an Emacs interface which is very easy to use. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-06-19) o

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On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 5:25 AM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 3:11 AM John Conover wrote: > >> John Darrah writes: >> > On Thu, 2023-11-09 at 16:03 -0800, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: >> > > Folks: >> > > >> > > Does anyone know of

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On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 3:11 AM John Conover wrote: > John Darrah writes: > > On Thu, 2023-11-09 at 16:03 -0800, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > > Folks: > > > > > > Does anyone know of a password manager which will store a variety of > > > user-defined information for each login, and not stor

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I can also recomend a Keepass compatible password manager. I am personally using the offical Keepass2 app over Mono, but KeePassXC has also worked well. I have been using Syncthing to sync it between my devices, include my Android smartphone. For Android, I have found KeepassDX and Keepass2Andro

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On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:39:08 -0500 wrote: > On Thu, 9 Nov 2023 12:46:23 -0500 > Todd Zullinger wrote: > > > > > [1] https://www.passwordstore.org/ > > > > Excellent suggestion! > > I can't get it to work properly, because there must be something > fundamentally missing in my understanding o

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On Thu, 9 Nov 2023 12:46:23 -0500 Todd Zullinger wrote: > Hi, > > pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > I have a bash/GPG based password manager I wrote years ago, but I'd > > like to use something more "accepted/popular". The problem I have > > with the

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er.hans Am 09. Nov, 2023 schwätzte pa...@quillandmouse.com so: moin moin Paul, Folks: I have a bash/GPG based password manager I wrote years ago, but I'd like to use something more "accepted/popular". The problem I have with the other password managers I've looked at is that

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John Darrah writes: > On Thu, 2023-11-09 at 16:03 -0800, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > Folks: > > > > Does anyone know of a password manager which will store a variety of > > user-defined information for each login, and not store that > > information > > on the internet (and which is free as

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On Thu, 2023-11-09 at 16:03 -0800, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Folks: > > Does anyone know of a password manager which will store a variety of > user-defined information for each login, and not store that > information > on the internet (and which is free as in beer)? > Take a look at 'secr

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Am 09. Nov, 2023 schwätzte pa...@quillandmouse.com so: moin moin Paul, Folks: I have a bash/GPG based password manager I wrote years ago, but I'd like to use something more "accepted/popular". The problem I have with the other password managers I've looked at is that

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On 9 Nov 2023 11:05 -0500, from pa...@quillandmouse.com: > Does anyone know of a password manager which will store a variety of > user-defined information for each login, and not store that information > on the internet (and which is free as in beer)? KeepassXC if you want a primarily GUI solution

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Hi, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > I have a bash/GPG based password manager I wrote years ago, but I'd > like to use something more "accepted/popular". The problem I have with > the other password managers I've looked at is that you can store a very > limite

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On 11/9/23 11:05, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Folks: I have a bash/GPG based password manager I wrote years ago, but I'd like to use something more "accepted/popular". The problem I have with the other password managers I've looked at is that you can store a ve

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On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 11:05:53AM -0500, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Folks: > > I have a bash/GPG based password manager I wrote years ago, but I'd > like to use something more "accepted/popular". The problem I have with > the other password managers I'v

Password managers

Folks: I have a bash/GPG based password manager I wrote years ago, but I'd like to use something more "accepted/popular". The problem I have with the other password managers I've looked at is that you can store a very limited amount of information for each "account&quo

Re: Firefox Future and Config [WAS: Re: Password managers]

"Garreau, Alexandre" writes: > Wait, do you mean overriding password manager, and TreeStyleTabs will > certainly and definitely stop to work? TreeStyleTab is already ported to the new Web Extensions: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ It says "Compatible with Firefox

Re: Firefox Future and Config [WAS: Re: Password managers [WAS: Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases?]]

On 20/10/2017 at 18:22, The Wanderer wrote: > (Please learn to quote properly. Failure to quote at all is arguably > even worse than top-posting.) Sorry, when I’m answering to all or the main part of a message completely I find it clearer to try to begin answering with a sole mail, but thank for t

Re: Firefox Future and Config [WAS: Re: Password managers [WAS: Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases?]]

(Please learn to quote properly. Failure to quote at all is arguably even worse than top-posting.) On 2017-10-20 at 18:07, Garreau, Alexandre wrote: > Wait, do you mean overriding password manager, and TreeStyleTabs > will certainly and definitely stop to work? I don't know about TreeStyleTabs.

Firefox Future and Config [WAS: Re: Password managers [WAS: Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases?]]

Wait, do you mean overriding password manager, and TreeStyleTabs will certainly and definitely stop to work? Would it be realistic to find some way to make Debian maintain patches/a fork (or package GNU IceCat and work with them? why isn’t any fork packaged into Debian? ’cause Firefox isn’t known

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On 2017-10-20 at 15:46, Garreau, Alexandre wrote: > Maybe these extensions will be remade and repackaged with > web-extensions then (afaik it’s a good move, yet breaking all the old > apps forever is bad, they should re-integrate it after I while I’d > personally prefer). > > Waiting for this, XU

Re: Password managers [WAS: Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases?]

Maybe these extensions will be remade and repackaged with web-extensions then (afaik it’s a good move, yet breaking all the old apps forever is bad, they should re-integrate it after I while I’d personally prefer). Waiting for this, XUL extensions I install through Debian on stable are perfectly w

Re: Password managers [WAS: Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases?]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, at 02:27, Garreau, Alexandre wrote: > I’d especially like to notice that there are the packages > *xul-ext-gnome-keyring* and *xul-ext-kwallet5* which make both Firefox > and Thunderbird use respectively GNOME and KDE’s password > managers. That’s way more secu

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s > *xul-ext-gnome-keyring* and *xul-ext-kwallet5* which make both Firefox > and Thunderbird use respectively GNOME and KDE’s password > managers. That’s way more secure imho, and especially with the package > xul-ext-pwdhash. > > Waiting for the beautiful day where you’ll have only

Re: Password managers [WAS: Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases?]

On 20/10/17 14:04, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:24:55PM +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I had similar problems and switched to Chromium, however I would never trust *any* browser to store passwords. Passwordsafe is my best friend, especially since it was upgraded to run

Password managers [WAS: Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases?]

KDE’s password managers. That’s way more secure imho, and especially with the package xul-ext-pwdhash. Waiting for the beautiful day where you’ll have only one passphrase to remember, update and type for both grub/libreboot, luks, PAM/login, password manager, and gpg-agent… Would that diffic

Password managers [WAS: Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases?]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:24:55PM +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > > I had similar problems and switched to Chromium, however I would never > trust *any* browser to store passwords. Passwordsafe is my best friend, > especially since it was upgraded to run under Stretch. +1 Though, I prefer K

Re: comparing password managers in Debian, synchronizing on multiple devices

on paper? > > I think what you are describing is a bit of useless, but a summary of all > password managers and storage systems is still pretty usefull. With my > previous post I wanted to point out that completeness is what I would > expect from a debian wiki article. You can save

Re: comparing password managers in Debian, synchronizing on multiple devices

deloptes writes: > The idea to upload encrypted password on some cloud service is scary Then don't upload it to a cloud service :-) Instead, upload it to a specific host, one that you can make an informed trust decision about. > Passwords are usually kept in a safe place. Yes. Do you consider

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n a safe place. Especially private keys are not meant to be shared so I did not understand what are you doing with your private gpg key? Do you have it printed on paper? I think what you are describing is a bit of useless, but a summary of all password managers and storage systems is still

Re: comparing password managers in Debian, synchronizing on multiple devices

iel Pocock wrote: > >> >> On 24/10/16 13:05, Daniel Pocock wrote: >>> >>> There have been various discussions in here and in some derivative >>> projects like Ubuntu about choosing and using password managers, >>> especially the way to sync their pas

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an equal standing with other synchronisation methods. For me, at present the best option is Password Store (a.k.a. ‘pass’). > - which password managers have a built-in mechanism for synchronizing > or merging password lists on multiple devices? By setting a Git remote to a private hosted re

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Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 24/10/16 13:05, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> >> >> There have been various discussions in here and in some derivative >> projects like Ubuntu about choosing and using password managers, >> especially the way to sync their

Re: comparing password managers in Debian, synchronizing on multiple devices

Daniel Pocock [2016-10-24 13:05:28+02] wrote: > Given the way we do things in Debian it is important not to depend on a > service like Dropbox to sync the password files. > > Therefore, how are people choosing a password manager and solving this > in practice? I have used "pass" and liked it. It'

Re: comparing password managers in Debian, synchronizing on multiple devices

On 24/10/16 13:05, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > There have been various discussions in here and in some derivative > projects like Ubuntu about choosing and using password managers, > especially the way to sync their password lists across multiple devices. > > Given th

comparing password managers in Debian, synchronizing on multiple devices

There have been various discussions in here and in some derivative projects like Ubuntu about choosing and using password managers, especially the way to sync their password lists across multiple devices. Given the way we do things in Debian it is important not to depend on a service like