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Show HN: Command-line secrets manager powered by macOS keychains (github.com)
1 points by lot3oo 1047 days ago
Hey folks!

I've been cleaning this up for the past few weeks for sharing it out. It's a small CLI to manage secrets by storing them in keychains on macOS.

I wrote this after rejecting 1Password / Keeper / Lastpass as I didn't want to rely on a third party and a credit card subscription for storing a few secrets.

My needs were simple: a nice CLI to securely store secrets and inject them in scripts. That's mostly it. Everything else seemed overkill. Now with keychains, I get that, plus a nice native and familiar UI to manage my secret, as well as syncing across my machines.

Hope this is useful for someone else!

Please, let me know if you try it out and tell me what you think!

Thank you!
1 comments
ggm 1047 days ago
Can you make a disclaimer to e.g. telemetry? I know it has to be verified by anyone so at one view, its pointless, but it would be good to be clear you didn't e.g. use a library or tool which leaks info to its upstream on use.

I looked and it's bash scripting over the OSX "security" command btw (to anyone else reading this who hsn't looked) and its 215 lines of script. Not hard to read, not hard to gain some comfort over what it does.

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