Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by nixpulvis 1239 days ago
Any program that is GUI first (like keepass) cannot be the standard UNIX password manager. Furthermore, `pass` fits nicely into the philosophy of small reusable components. It is a small amount of shell scripting wrapped around two other commonly used tools: Git and GPG.
2 comments
torstenvl 1239 days ago
What's the percentage of end-user Unix systems with X installed?

What's the percentage of end-user Unix systems with Git installed?

What's the percentage of KeePass stores that can be used without X?

What's the percentage of pass stores that can be used without Git?

link
nixpulvis 1238 days ago
1. Without knowing exactly what counts as an "end-user", 15%. This is low for two reasons, 1) because I can SSH into a plethora of non-graphical systems, which I assume are the majority; and 2) just to be difficult and pedantic with the new Wayland systems for example.

2. Should be like 95% ;)

3. Without ever having used KeePass, I'm quite confident of the answer to this one... 100%. Is it officially supported and easy though?

4. Also 100%! But not happily.

Sorry, without some additional context I can't really give you satisfying answers I fear.

link
selfhoster11 1237 days ago
> Any program that is GUI first (like keepass) cannot be the standard UNIX password manager.

Why is that? Unix != lack of UI (NeXT, Solaris, any Unix descendant with a port of CDE), and being GUI first doesn't matter if there is good CLI support.

link