passwordmachine

Organize your passwords in a safe database.

Usage no npm install needed!

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README

passwordmachine

Organize your passwords in a database encrypted with a master password.

Installation

$ npm install -g passwordmachine

Usage

Usage: passwordmachine [options] <pattern>

Options:
  -v, --value    Set a password.                   
  -f, --file     Path to database file.              [default: "/home/domachine/.passwordmachine"]
  -e, --encrypt  Encrypt a file.                    
  -V, --verbose  Verbose output.                    
  -d, --dump     Dump the database.                
  -c, --create   Create a new database.            
  -r, --remove   Remove an entry from the database.

Create a database

At first use you have to create your database. The default output file is ~/.passwordmachine. You can change the file passwordmachine works on using the -f parameter.

$ passwordmachine -c
Password:

Show contents

List the full content of your database with the following command.

$ passwordmachine /
Password:

total 2
d google.de/
p google.de/user
p google.de/password
d mywebsite/app1/
p mywebsite/app1/password
d mywebsite/app2/
p mywebsite/app2/password

Show a specific directory or a password

$ passwordmachine mywebsite
Password:

total 2
d app1/
d app2/

$ passwordmachine mywebsite/app2/password
Password:
my_secret_password

Search

To search through your password database use the following. Notice the slash at the start of the argument which triggers a search. The part after the slash is a regular expression.

 $ passwordmachine '/^app'
 Password:

 total 2
 d mywebsite/app1/
 d mywebsite/app2/

Create or change a password

To create a new password use this. Directories are created on the fly.

$ passwordmachine 'mywebsite/app3/password' -v 'my_app3_secret_password'
Password:

Updating is exactly the same.

$ passwordmachine 'mywebsite/app3/password' -v 'my_changed_secret_password'
Password:

Remove a password/directory

Removing is as easy as this.

$ passwordmachine -r mywebsite/app3

This works with passwords and directories.