Walt Mankowski on Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:39:04 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] personal keychain manager


On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:58:02AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> I have a lot of passwords. The dumb way to manage them (though there
> are dumber) is with something like
> 
>     find-passwd() { gpg --decrypt $keychain | grep $1; }
>     add-passwd() { ( gpg --decrypt $keychain; echo $1; ) | \
>         gpg --encrypt > $keychain.back; mv $keychain.back $keychain; }
> 
> and ch-passwd happens by hand or something unless one gets elaborate.
> 
> But this seems to common to require such an ad hoc solution. Searching
> on freshmeat and cpan, however, didn't reveal anything useful.
> 
> Any thoughts?

I store passwords passwords on my Visor using Strip[1].

Walt

1. http://www.zetetic.net/

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