[Wolves] Passwords

[David Goodwin]

I've used a gpg encrypted text file (which could be in e.g. drop box). You can set vim (everyone's favourite editor) up to prompt you for the passphrase when you go to read it, and so on....

so, I just have to do :

vim ~/doc/passwords.asc
<<enter password when prompted>>
<<file opens up in vim as plain text>>



Try putting the following into your .vimrc, assuming you're already setup to use gpg, and have a .asc file already. :

" use GnuPG to open a .gpg file
augroup gpg
au!
au BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.gpg set viminfo=
au BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.gpg set noswapfile
au BufReadPost *.gpg :%!gpg -q -d
au BufReadPost *.gpg | redraw
au BufWritePre *.gpg :%!gpg --default-recipient-self -q -e -a
au BufWritePost *.gpg u
au VimLeave *.gpg :!clear
augroup END


The above is only of any use for an individual's passwords, as it doesn't really promote sharing etc. So for work we just use a web app which has restricted access and some trivial obfuscation in place. To access that you need a username/password and access to our local LAN. 

David.

On 2 Apr 2011, at 10:48, mawkati at yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> Hiya, I am having loads of passwords and usernames for various services. What is the best way to keep them safe but have them accessible?
> Cheers
> Mo
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