prs is a secure, fast and convenient password manager for the terminal.
Security is backed by GPG which is used all over the world and has been battle-tested.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Fully featured fast & friendly command line tool.
- Built-in password generator.
- Recipient management
- History tracking,
- Rollbacks.
- Housekeeping utilities.
- Tomb support to prevent metadata leakage.
- Temporary copy secrets to clipboard.
- Uses the battle-tested GPG to secure your secrets.
- Automatic synchronization with git including history tracking.
- Supports multiple machines with easy recipient management.
- Easily edit secrets using your default editor.
- Supports smart aliases, property selection.
- Compatible with pass*.
- Supports multiple cryptography backends.
- Support for TOTP tokens for two-factor authentication.
- Scriptable with -y, -f, -I flags
- Accurate & useful error reporting
- Tweaks and optimizations:
- Greatly improved synchronization speed through
gitwith connection reuse* - Super fast interactive secret/recipient selection through skim
- Prevents messing with your clipboard, no unexpected overwrites or clipboard loss
- When using Tomb, it is automatically opened, closed and resized for you
- Commands have short and conventional aliases for faster and more convenient usage
- Uses security best practices (secrets: zeroed, mlock, madvice, no format, etc)
- Greatly improved synchronization speed through
- Cross-platform support: runs under Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows.
Website: gitlab.com/timvisee/prs
Support:
Developer: Tim Visee
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
prs is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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