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by rurban 1939 days ago
Why would anyone use this over GNU pass?
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Hi, the Unix pass uses Unix shell and it is great, I believe there is a GUI for that as well. Let me point out some of the differences that I can see in favor of PassPilot:

* PassPilot is platform agnostic (not only unix) it is an HTML application that will run in any modern browser on any platform.

* PassPilot also offers online storage

* in PassPilot everything is in a single file not separated into multiple files so it is easier to move around

* PassPilot does not require knowledge of unix and is quite simple to use, it would be probably harder for me to explain Unix pass to my dad that to explain how to use PassPilot

At the and if you are happy with your password manager you will unlikely to switch but still I encourage you to test PassPilot since it is free anyways.

I created PassPilot also for people who are not pro Unix users. Of course pro users will get the most out of PassPilot but if you understand how internet works in general you will benefit from using such password manager anyways.

Thanks, this answers all my questions
Never heard of gnu pass before. Looks neat.

As for your question: Looks like you can’t hide which entities you have a password with, when using gnu pass. Also looks like you can’t store usernames with gnu pass (well, I suppose you can create two files for each entity...).

Other than that, gnu pass looks pretty cool and fun to use if you’re into command line stuff.

So, depending on who you are, that’s 3 reasons to use something like this over gnu pass

They wouldn’t. Well at least I personally would not. GNU Pass is old and time-tested.