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15 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Password Managers

A password manager is a utility which helps users store and retrieve passwords and other data. Here’s our open source recommendations.

SpicyPass is a lightweight password manager that uses state of the art cryptography and minimalist design principles.

pa is a simple password manager. Encryption support is provided via age. It’s written in portable posix shell.

Pasaffe is an easy to use password manager for GNOME with a Password Safe 3.0 compatible database.

passage is a fork of password-store that uses age as a backend instead of GnuPG.

passfzf is a simple fzf wrapper for pass (the UNIX password-store).

rbw is an unofficial Bitwarden client which maintains a background process which is able to hold keys in memory.

The Bitwarden command-line interface (CLI) is a powerful, fully-featured tool for accessing and managing your vault.

gopass is billed as the slightly more awesome standard unix password manager for teams.

keydex is a command line utility to manage KeePass databases. It comes with subcommands for managing the entries.