Evidlo

passhole

Python2018–2023

Evidlo / passhole

passhole

A secure hole for your passwords (KeePass CLI)

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What it is

A secure hole for your passwords (KeePass CLI)

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Where it is used

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I'm a happy qutebrowser user, too; but I too would've liked some password manager integration (to the point where I considered investing some time into the Keepass RPC API,…

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philippc/keepass2android · linked in 2 of the same discussions

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HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-09-26 00:52:21 UTC to 2023-01-22 16:02:43 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	5	1	4
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

What Hacker News says

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Evidlo·Jan 22, 2023

The KeePass format has been around for years. I don't really understand why people keep using pass, or why it bills itself as the "standard" Unix password manager. There are also already command line KeePass utilities, like passhole [0] (mine) and keepassxc-cli. [0]: https://github.com/evidlo/passhole [1]: https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide.html

In (In)Security of the “Pass” password manager

Evidlo·Apr 14, 2021

I wrote a pass equivalent for KeePass for this very reason [0]. It doesn't leak any metadata because everything is contained in a single file and it's compatible with the rest of the KeePass ecosystem. [0]: https://github.com/Evidlo/passhole/

In Pass: The standard Unix password manager

Evidlo·Oct 27, 2019

I wrote an interface that takes inspiration from pass: https://github.com/evidlo/passhole There is also keepassxc-cli and kpcli.

In KeePassXC 2.5

chewz·Jul 12, 2019

Keepass with passhole in terminal, Keepass2Android on Android and Tusk extension in Chrome. Keepass comunity solutions are strong and open source. And free. https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android https://subdavis.com/Tusk/ https://github.com/Evidlo/passhole

In 1Password: Standalone / Local Vault Option Gone?

Evidlo·Jan 20, 2019

Self-plug: passhole is a keepass CLI password manager that has this feature built in. http://github.com/evidlo/passhole

In 773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years Old

Evidlo·Jan 16, 2019Submission

Show HN: Passhole – CLI password manager

2 points · Open discussion

chewz·Jan 16, 2019

Keepass. At the moment I am using passhole in terminal, Tusk extension in Chrome and Keepass2Android on Android. All synced via Google Drive. The apps I use have changed over time but it is still the same database and all apps I use have open source code published on Github. [1] https://github.com/subdavis/Tusk https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keepass-tusk-passw... [2] https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android [3] https://github.com/Evidlo/passhole

In Ask HN: Best password manager(s) for mere mortals?

btschaegg·Sep 26, 2018Recommendation phrase

I'm a happy qutebrowser user, too; but I too would've liked some password manager integration (to the point where I considered investing some time into the Keepass RPC API, since that's my pwd manager of choice). However, since I stumbled about this project, I've got no need for that anymore: https://github.com/purduelug/passhole I really like the suckless approach to GUIs in this case. Yes, you don't get stuff like automatic url matching with this, and you have to manually add new entries, but its functionality is works great for me nontheless. Maybe, there's also an easy way for you to get (or write) a dmenu interface for 1password?

In Qutebrowser – A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser based on PyQt5

Evidlo·Sep 26, 2018

See passmenu (pass) or passhole (KeePass) for password autotypers that work with any program. Disclaimer: I wrote passhole. https://github.com/cdown/passmenu https://github.com/purduelug/passhole

In Qutebrowser – A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser based on PyQt5