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I would rather not use the command line to manage my passwords and not everyone can use the command line.



There are a variety of clients for several platforms (desktop and mobile apps, browser extensions, desktop environment integrations). You can use pass without a single console line.

Not sure why this is downvoted, at first look this seems to solve things similarly to GNU pass except pass makes sharing password stores with teams etc smooth. Because of using GPG rather than straight up asymmetric encryption you get a key management for free.

Additionally crypto implementation seems hit well-designed. This would have been a lot better as a GNU pass client - exact same user experience but they wouldn't have to solve several important problems.


Interested in how pass can be used without the command line?


They have some links on their front-page (linked in the top comment): https://www.passwordstore.org/#other

Personally I use qtpass as a GUI manager and passmenu for fetching from clipboard via a keyboard shortcut.


I'm using `pass` for years now and it's perfect. On Android there is the Password Store app which integrates with the OpenPGP app, it's amazing :).




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