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   August Abolins to All   
   self-managed passwords with gpg   
   01 Feb 26 19:41:00   
   
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   PID: OpenXP/5.0.64 (Win32)   
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   Just recently, I was steered to this site..   
      
   https://www.passwordstore.org/   
      
   And in there, I realized that a very simple self-managed password "vault" can   
   be created with just using gpg from the command line.   
      
   For example, if you wanted to store a password for Ebay..   
      
   gpp -o pw-for-ebay.gpg -e -r [myID] -   
      
   ..and the system will  open stdin for typing.  when done, hit new-line, and   
   ctrl-C [probably ^D in linux], and the file is created with the string stored   
   inside.   
      
   H:\temp>gpg -o pw-for-ebay.gpg -e -r august -   
   File 'pw-for-ebay.gpg' exists. Overwrite? (y/N) y   
   updated pw is ... blahblahblah111   
   ^C   
      
   When you need to view the pw:   
      
   H:\temp>gpg -d pw-for-ebay.gpg   
   gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID 583B29AD69D0999F, created 2020-01-02   
         "August Abolins "   
   updated pw is ... blahblahblah111   
      
   So.. it's relatively simple to have a safe directory with all the pw*.gpg   
   files like that.   
      
   Combine that with rclone and a remote defined as "crypt", you can keep a copy   
   of the directory in the cloud where you could access the contents from any   
   other device that has rclone.   
      
      
      
      
      
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