Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.misc Subject: Re: Do you use a password manager? Date: 16 Jul 2021 21:51:53 GMT Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <87zgumv0vi.fsf@tigger.extechop.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 3eQL1dSAZ8/B07cilyUWOQVcFVii+RaWICH3RgBx1BmO1WYH0C Cancel-Lock: sha1:ggaoSnjNte2oRNmeGCpph07sJVo= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:137292 comp.sys.mac.misc:8087 comp.unix.misc:308 comp.misc:21092 On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 20:10:38 +0000, Lewis wrote: > In message Bob Eager > wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:34:09 +0300, Otto J. Makela wrote: > >>> Wade Garrett wrote: >>> >>>> I'd like to use a password manager but I'm not comfortable with that >>>> data being on some server somewhere- allegedly encrypted or not. >>>> >>>> If there's one that keeps the data just on the local machine, I'd be >>>> interested. >>> >>> I believe the classic "pass" (based on pgp) is available on various >>> Unix implementations, including MacOS. >>> >>> https://www.passwordstore.org/ > >> Indeed. I use it all the time. And it would be easy to do automatic >> replication to anything that supported a shell. > > I find this works well if I don't happen to have 1Password available > (like on a remote machine, for example) > > uuidgen| sha256sum| cut -c -24 > > (or any number from 16 on up to 64, though i do not need a 64 hex digit > password, ever.) > > But I add those passwords to my password manager immediately, of course. Mine, in that situation, is: dd if=/dev/random count=1 bs=16 2>/dev/null | b64encode - | \ sed -e 's/=*$//' -e '/^begin/d' -e '/^$/d' -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org