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by dxs 1276 days ago
For each account,

> Create a long, unique, random password.

> Save the site URL, the required userid, the password, and any other relevant things in a text file.

> Save all these text files in fossil.

> Password protect and save the fossil file with 7z.

When it's time to use a password, run a script to unzip the 7z file, fire up fossil, and expose the full set of password files, then access whatever I need.

When done, delete everything, leaving just the original 7z file.

Is it a little tedious and clunky? Yep. Does it work? Yep. Is it totally under my control? Yep.

Details

> Generate a 24-char password: gpg --gen-random --armor 1 18

> Fossil: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

> 7z: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z