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From: Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: Do you use a password manager?
Date: 16 Jul 2021 22:19:14 GMT
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 22:05:44 +0000, Lewis wrote:

> In message <iledbpFna39U4@mid.individual.net> Bob Eager
> <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 20:10:38 +0000, Lewis wrote:
> 
>>> In message <ildlj9Fna39U1@mid.individual.net> Bob Eager
>>> <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:34:09 +0300, Otto J. Makela wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> 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'
> 
> There's no "b64encode" on my macOS.

Sorry - it's a FreeBSD command, equivalent to uuencode -m (which you may 
or may not have). I like the general idea of using /dev/random, though.



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