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andrewbaxter
passworth
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andrewbaxter / passworth

passworth

Access-controlled, JSON-based password manager

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
9GitHub stars
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What it is

Access-controlled, JSON-based password manager

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-09-14 05:23:32 UTC to 2025-09-14 14:54:41 UTC.

012025-09-14 05:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-14 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 14, 05:002025-09-14 06:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-14 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-14 07:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-14 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-14 08:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-14 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-14 09:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-14 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 14, 09:002025-09-14 10:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-14 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-14 11:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-14 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-14 12:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-14 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-14 13:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-14 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-14 14:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-14 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 14, 14:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Sep 14, 05:002025-09-14 05:00:00 UTC2025-09-14 06:00:00 UTC101
Sep 14, 06:002025-09-14 06:00:00 UTC2025-09-14 07:00:00 UTC000
Sep 14, 07:002025-09-14 07:00:00 UTC2025-09-14 08:00:00 UTC000
Sep 14, 08:002025-09-14 08:00:00 UTC2025-09-14 09:00:00 UTC000
Sep 14, 09:002025-09-14 09:00:00 UTC2025-09-14 10:00:00 UTC000
Sep 14, 10:002025-09-14 10:00:00 UTC2025-09-14 11:00:00 UTC000
Sep 14, 11:002025-09-14 11:00:00 UTC2025-09-14 12:00:00 UTC000
Sep 14, 12:002025-09-14 12:00:00 UTC2025-09-14 13:00:00 UTC000
Sep 14, 13:002025-09-14 13:00:00 UTC2025-09-14 14:00:00 UTC000
Sep 14, 14:002025-09-14 14:00:00 UTC2025-09-14 15:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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There's a ton of positivity here, but on the balance there are some significant issues with pass that I think bear mention: - The fact that it's essentially unstructured data makes it hard to work with generically. If you have a username + password and need to use those in a script, you'll need to implement your own parser in your shell language in every script you need it in. - `pass generate` to generate new passwords, maybe thanks to the above, replaces everything in the pass value by default. So if you had e.g. a password + secret question answers, if you use `generate` to get a new password it'll wipe out your secret question answers. - It's very difficult to review history. I stopped using it a while ago, but since everything's encrypted `git diff` won't give you anything useful and IIRC the command line tools were very hard to use
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for reviewing/restoring passwords when you mess up updates, etc. - The name makes it nearly impossible to search for I've been working on something similar... although with slightly larger scope (intended to be used within containers/sandboxes) https://github.com/andrewbaxter/passworth
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