I wanted an easy way to store the different logins and passwords for various sites. I prefer something which is really secure and is not automatically accessible/unlocks when I login. Tried using Seahorse (eventhough it will unlock the keyring on login), but it seemed to lack a userid field. Storing such info in the comments feels not right to me. Plus, sometimes I want to store a bit of extra information (stuff like secret question + answers.. I find them insecure and prefer to just put another password there).
Initially I looked at Console Password Manager, but unfortunately Mandriva didn’t have a package for it. Further, development seemed to have stalled a bit.
I’ve settled now on a GnuPG plugin for Vim. Really easy to use, plus I can access it easily via SSH. Only drawback is that it will show all the passwords when I unlock/edit the textfile, ideally Vim should fold everything and so I can unfold the password I need at that time.
Try this syntax/modeline to fold your password file. Works great for me.
# vim: sts=2 sw=2 fdm=indent fdt=
service name
login
password
misc…
Sorry, there should be two spaces in front of “login”
“password” & “misc…”… WordPress ate them 🙂
http://pastebin.com/q2UQ16he
Did you look at Revelation? I think a lot of folks use KeepassX, which I believe has clients for Android, iPhone, etc. But, Revelation, along with UbuntuOne, suits my needs pretty well.
I’m using CLVault myself – http://pypi.python.org/pypi/CLVault – which is pretty neat, you should give it a try.
pwsafe
What about using “Revelation” or “KeyPassX” ? I personnaly using Revelation.
apt-get install revelation and that it !
Ciao !
How about http://pwdhash.com ?
I just created an extra keyring inside seahorse – this will not be unlocked on login. Then I just use login@site as key name for encoding site+login for each place. The last part is a bit of a hack, but works well for me 🙂
I use the old-school PWman[0]; it’s beautifully UNIX-y: GPG key for encryption, ncurses-based for CLI/remote access, and very fast.
There’s also “PWman 3″[1] (even though the original PWman still gets the odd commit), which is Python-based and, in this commenter’s humble opinion, a severe step down from PWman 2 (e.g. it can’t use an existing GPG key) – I mention it only because “sudo apt-get install pwman” on Ubuntu will suggest pwman3 instead. Avoid! Avoid!
[0] http://sourceforge.net/projects/pwman/
[1] Their website is gone…
My Favorite:
SQLCipher – http://www.zetetic.net/code/sqlcipher