clivepass1

Usage

Overview

clivepass is a replacement for stored plain-text website login passwords used with clive(1). It keeps website login passwords encrypted in a repository file that can be accessed with a global passphrase. Typically these login passwords are passed in plain-text form to clive(1) on command line or from a config file.

Note that even though the passwords are encrypted on disk, they are passed in plain-text over the network. This means the passwords are still visible to anyone intercepting the network traffic.

Historically, a similar utility existed as part of clive 1.0 but was removed in clive 2.0 and later rewritten in Perl as part of the clive-utils project which is a set of additional utilities for clive(1).

Options

-h --help

Show help and exit.

-v --version

Show version and exit.

-c --create

Create a new passwd file. See also "FILES".

-s --show

Dump all saved login usernames to stdout.

-d --delete=username

Delete username from passwd file.

Examples

Create new password repository file:

% clivepass -c

Add "myusername" to the repository:

% clivepass -a myusername

Note that "myusername" should be the login username for the website.

Get login password for "myusername":

% clivepass -g myusername

There is a more comprehensive example of clive(1) using clivepass(1) in the clive(1) manual page.

Files

clivepass searches the ~/.config/clive-utils directory for the config file. You can override this by setting the CLIVEPASS_HOME environment variable.

~/.config/clive-utils/passwd

Password file. Contains the salted passphrase hash and login usernames and encrypted passwords.

Other

Project page:
<http://googlecode.com/p/clive-utils/>

Development repository can be cloned with:
% git clone git://repo.or.cz/clive-utils.git

For release announcements, subscribe to the project at:
<http://freshmeat.net/projects/clive-utils/>