Pass - password manager

09 July, 2020 - 1 min

I use pass to store some passwords at work, so I don't have those typical unprotected text files with all the database credentials. Its interface is quite simple to use.

Some use cases:

List the passwords paths

$ pass
Password Store
├── databases
│   ├── db_name
│   │   ├── staging
│   │   │   ├── username
│   │   ├── prod
│   │   │   ├── username

See a password

$ pass show databases/db_name/staging/username
thisisatopsecretpassword

Copy a password to the clipboard

$ pass show --clip databases/db_name/staging/username
Copied databases/db_name/staging/username to clipboard. Will clear in 45 seconds.

Use a password on a bash script

#!/usr/bin/env bash

...
api_password=$(pass show --clip service_a/api/password)
...

Thanks for reading!

Vicente

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