PWMAN3
A nice command line password manager, which is smart enough to use different SQL Databases (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL and MongoDB).
Pwman3 can also copy passwords to the clipboard (on Mac and Linux and Windows) without exposing them, so you save
some typing.
Besides managing and storing passwords, Pwman3 can also generate passwords using different algorithms.
Nice Features in pwman3:
- Strong AES Encryption
- copying of passwords to clipboard
- launching specific uri's with default browser
- password generators
- not really a user oriented feature. However, it guarantees the elimination of silly bugs: pwman3 is test driven!
A very important note about security
If you are a concerned about security, please note:
- If you are afraid that PWMAN3 is to weak for your needs ... and you still want to try it, here
are a few recommendations:
- Don't store your Password Database in the Obvious place, and if your extremely paranoind store it completely away from your computer on a separate USB key.
- Use a HARD to crack password to encrypt your database!
- If you care, report bugs, and send patches.
- I would realy like you to use PWMAN3, so I could get feedback and more ideas, especially, if you know something about security (which is probably more than I know at the moment.
Installing
Pwman3 requires the following debian packages:
python3-colorama python3-cryptography xsel - to copy password to clipboard on Linux
Pwman3 supports Python 3.x Only!
To install from source:
You can install PWMAN3 using python pip:
$ pip install pwman3
User Interface
- When xsel is install on a Linux system, you can copy passwords directly to clipboard with the copy command.
- The command 'open' will open the default browser if URL is specified.
-
An automatic 'clear screen' function is called after printing an entry in the database.
The screen will be cleared after 5 seconds by default. However, this can be changed by changing the
correct value in ~.pwman/config
:
[Global]
...
cls_timeout = 10
To disable the automatic 'clear screen' functionality set cls_timeout
to a negative integer.
[Global]
...
cls_timeout = -1
An automatic 'clear screen' function is called after printing an entry in the database.
The screen will be cleared after 5 seconds by default. However, this can be changed by changing the
correct value in ~.pwman/config
:
[Global]
...
cls_timeout = 10
To disable the automatic 'clear screen' functionality set cls_timeout
to a negative integer.
[Global]
...
cls_timeout = -1
making a password from the numeric character and the alphabet character ([A-Za-z0-9]).
You can add a parameter for making the password to the config(~/.pwman/config).
For Example:
[Generator]
numerics = true
Passwords can contain one of the following special signs:
specialsigns = ["@", "#", "?", "!", '\\', "|", "$",
"%", "^", "&", "*", "(", ")", ":", ";",
"{", "}", "+","-"]
The config file must have the following option:
[Generator]
special_signs = true
Individual password policy can be chosen with:
Pwman3 0.2.1 (c) visit: http://github.com/pwman3/pwman3
pwman> n {'numerics':True, 'special_signs':True}
Username: username
Password length (default: 8): 12
New password: Q1dab@7abhk4
Copying password to X11 or Mac clip board:
On Mac OSX systems copying utilizespbcopy
On X11 Systems Specify the path to xsel
if you already have ~/.pwman/config
[Global]
xsel = yes
xselpath = /usr/bin/xsel
When launching pwman
for the first time, it will try and look for
xsel
and write the configuration properly.