passage is a command-line password manager derived from password-store, commonly known as pass. It replaces GnuPG with age, providing an alternative encryption backend while retaining much of the familiar password-store workflow.
The application maintains encrypted secrets as individual files arranged in directories. This makes it suitable for users who prefer controlling their credentials through ordinary filesystem operations rather than a dedicated database or cloud service.
Its recipient-based encryption model is particularly useful when different groups of passwords need different keys. passage also offers compatibility mechanisms for existing password-store extensions, although it is not an exact replacement for every pass operation.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Encrypts password entries individually using the age encryption tool.
- Stores encrypted credentials in a directory tree, with ~/.passage/store as the default location.
- Uses an identities file for decrypting stored passwords.
- Supports directory-specific .age-recipients files to control which identities can decrypt particular secrets.
- Searches parent directories for recipient configurations when none exists beside a secret.
- Supports password-protected age identities for additional protection of the encryption key.
- Can use compatible age plugins, including hardware-backed identities through age-plugin-yubikey.
- Allows password-store extensions to detect passage through the PASSAGE environment variable.
- Provides configurable store, identities, age executable and recipient settings through environment variables.
- Retains password-store settings for clipboard timeout and generated password length.
- Re-encrypts secrets when they are copied or moved.
- Can be integrated with external tools such as fzf for interactive secret selection.
Website: github.com/FiloSottile/passage
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Developer: Filippo Valsorda
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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