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pash

🔒 A simple password manager using GPG written in POSIX sh.

5Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
356GitHub stars
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🔒 A simple password manager using GPG written in POSIX sh.

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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 year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-11-30 18:47:00 UTC to 2025-11-13 15:37:01 UTC.

0122019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 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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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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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> I'm now experimenting with `age`, which touts itself as "simple, modern, and secure encryption". If needed, I will use `minisign` for signatures. I have also switched from GPG to age. When I wanted to start signing my open-source software releases because of recent supply-chain attacks, I first thought of Minisign, too. I tried it for binaries and even found a few third-party Git integrations (https://codeberg.org/SkyFox42/git-minisign, https://github.com/sug0/git-signify), then discovered that Git and GitHub supported signing with SSH keys (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72844616). GitHub supports it in the sense that it will indicate a commit or tag is signed. I have adopted this approach: I sign tags with `git tag -s foo` and binaries with `ssh-keygen -Y sign`, and I have put the public key and usage instructions on my site (htt
Read the rest
ps://dbohdan.com/pubkeys). gpg-agent was valuable to me because it let me use `pass` in scripts while maintaining encryption at rest. This prevented me from switching to `passage`. After surveying my options (https://github.com/dbohdan/pago/blob/6aa312e83113498a64abd9a...), I ended up forking pash (https://github.com/dylanaraps/pash) and developing the fork into an age-based password manager with its own agent. The developer of seniorpw has a nice feature comparison of `pass`-like password managers based on age (https://gitlab.com/retirement-home/seniorpw/-/blob/f1584cf42...). I can say I am happy with the switch. If you use GPG for encrypting files, I can recommend it.
In Switching from GPG to Age
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
I personally didn't find pass to be minimal enough (not all POSIX-y systems use bash as /bin/sh, after all), which is why I switched to pash [0]. I created some shell functions to integrate it with fzf and support multiline passwords (in which the first line is the password and following lines contain metadata like usernames). The code is in my dotfiles [1]. [0]: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pash [1]: https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/shell...
In Show HN: SpicyPass – A free and open-source minimalist password manager

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