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Message   August Abolins    All   self-managed passwords with gpg   February 1, 2026
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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 <august@kolico.ca>"
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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