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a simple password manager. encryption via age, written in portable posix shell

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574GitHub stars
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a simple password manager. encryption via age, written in portable posix shell

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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, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-02-10 03:17:25 UTC to 2025-07-11 01:30:51 UTC.

0122021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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A simple password manager using age written in POSIX bash. Based on pash by dylanaraps[0]. I forked this project from pa by biox[1]. Also, this implementation of passage has nothing to do with passage which was based on Rust and that project appears to be archived[2]. I am just a ham fisted knucklehead and have never claimed to be a developer. I have been a long time user of pass and have been following age for quite some time. I have been waiting for Age and Pass to get together at some point, so when I saw pa as a pass+age type password manager, figured I would mess around with it for my own purposes. [0] - https://github.com/dylanaraps/pash [1] - https://github.com/biox/pa [2] - https://github.com/stchris/passage Feel free to critique, use or recommend anything. For me personally, it works for my day to day usage.
In Show HN: Passage; a passwordstore-like replacement using age

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