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Re: command line password manager

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In comp.os.linux.misc, John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> wrote:
> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
>> But recently I've been doing some work that requires me to enter
>> passwords over and over and it's made me think about how this
>> could be made more friendly to my workflow methods.
> Isn't >>that<< the real problem? ... i.e., "enter passwords over
> and over" (in cleartext) is itself a vulnerability for various
> kinds of attacks. So that's the aspect of your workflow which
> really should be changed in some way. And then a password manager
> is moot.

There are things I can change and things I can't change. And in this
case entering a password for sudo a bunch of times ends up being a
recurring theme at $WORK. But *next* time the current problem comes
up (which it does from time to time), now at least I have a prepared
script to deal with it on all of the machines.

Of course, a problem other than the current one is another matter.

Elijah
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command line password manager Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-07-26 19:21 +0000
  Re: command line password manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-07-26 20:36 +0000
    Re: command line password manager Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-07-26 22:07 +0000
  Re: command line password manager John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2019-07-27 01:44 +0000
    Re: command line password manager Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-07-27 06:11 +0000
      Re: command line password manager Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-07-27 15:18 +0000

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