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by ravenac95 4255 days ago
Creator here! I'd love any comments if anyone has them. This project is particularly useful for me so I was hoping others would find great use for it as well :)
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Since 1password only runs on OS X and Windows, I'm curious why you're optimistic about doing something about Linux ("yet") but merely took a shot at Windows in your README. This might surprise you, but a significant portion of the non-valley world works on Windows, and it's fairly frustrating for Windows admins (I used to be one) to come across a neat tool and get "sucks for you, better luck next time" in your documentation.

Normally I wouldn't say anything but 1password runs on Windows, not Linux, so it was odd to come across and, if I'm honest, made me lose a small amount of interest in your work.

You make an excellent point. I did not, in any way intend to offend Windows users. I was merely trying to be "tongue-and-cheek"-y with my comment. Really, I wouldn't know how to make this work well for an admin on windows. Last I used windows to SSH I was using putty, but that was back in 2005. I have since completely moved from using Windows to *nix systems.

As far as Linux support goes, I had planned to take a stab at writing a tmux plugin so that could potentially get me in the door to supporting Linux.

All that said, I am updating my README to address some of these concerns. Thanks so much for the great feedback!

> The README says 'Better security now that you > can have a different password for every server > if you'd like'.

Can you explain a bit more about your situation? I'd expect most people managing a lot of servers to be using a single LDAP account for login plus SSH passwordless logins - or are these servers maintained by external companies?

Two examples from my life:

For machines that I manage that are hosted by 3rd party VM providers I always use a separate root password. If the provider is compromised an attacker could modify the disk image I'm running from (say, with a modified /bin/su) and I don't want that to spread to other machines.

In the distant past when I was doing consulting I used to have passwords for multiple different clients. Obviously they need to be kept separate.

1. Has it been tested with the brand new (yosemite-only) 1Password 5.0?

2. I hope that you'll expand the installation options. Not everybody uses homebrew.

1) Not yet. I plan on doing that within a week. Hopefully tonight if possible.

2) Great point, I will outline how to install from the zip and from source.

Awesome little utility. I wish there's one for lastpass though, but good work nonetheless :)