using a CLI password manager?

joluveba

brent now that I've significantly cheated on Solus (monogamus since 2017🙂

Sorry for the off-topic, but this sounds very familiar to me. I have cheated on Solus several times, and I have always regretted it 🙁 .

Solarmass

joluveba Sorry for the off-topic, but this sounds very familiar to me. I have cheated on Solus several times, and I have always regretted it 🙁 .

Solarmass

@brent have you tried keepassxc-cli? It comes with keepassxc.

WetGeek

Solarmass

Does it automatically log in for you when you connect to a site, like LastPass does?

tomscharbach

brent I use KeePass/KeePassXC cross-platform on Windows/Linux, and have for a decade. Excellent track record, well-maintained, simple, absolutely reliable. I didn't realize that KeePass had CLI capabilities so I didn't mention KeePass in response to your post. If you prefer CLI to GUI, you might want to take a look, as @Solarmass suggested. KeePass/KeePassXC is a quality password manager.

brent I realize repos are wishes. I sat in Ubu auditioning most of their 87 password managers. Just like Solus. Many didn't launch after install. Many non-functional. Many missing elements. ... That's the fatal flaw of a ridiculously huge repo(s) I'm starting to understand.

Lesson learned? Linux users love to bleat on and on about the endless number of available apps, but the hard reality is that most apps offered to Linux users in the repos are poorly conceived, poorly designed, and poorly maintained if maintained at all. A train wreck in waiting from a security/malware perspective.

brent

tomscharbach lesson learned🙂.
Another reason I am leaning cli is things like a flatpak or repo keepassxc did not work in flatpak browsers...that was another long bloody thread from earlier this year.
One thing I love about Ubu is they will tell you if the personally audited the package.

tomscharbach most apps offered to Linux users in the repos are poorly conceived, poorly designed, and poorly maintained if maintained at all. A train wreck in waiting from a security/malware perspective.

the GUI pw managers certainly fit that description. many wouldn't render and youtube is a little VHF/UHF wavy-lined sometimes. I might have to swap out the nouveaus for the nvidias later. So far Tom: Mate used 50% of the time, Budgie 50% of the time.

WetGeek

brent Solus hasn't wasted my time this way.

Could that be because the Solus repository is curated?

Solarmass

WetGeek I think it does, you need to enable browser integration in the settings and install addon in the browser.

Brucehankins

brent if you're having issues with Flatpak permissions, check out Flat Seal. It's a GUI tool to alter permissions of Flatpak apps, and allows you to fix some of those problems. A lot of Flatpaks don't see the rest of the system by default since they're somewhat containerized.

WetGeek

Brucehankins check out Flat Seal

I noticed that in the Latte dock on a Bluestar distro I was evaluating, but had no idea what it was. Now I know! 😊

brent

Brucehankins wasn't a permission thing just a native app vs. non-native thing. repo keepass didnt work in flatpak ungoogled chromium but flatpak keepass did work with flatpack chromoium but solus firefox wouldnt see flatpak keepass. me and @Axios worked out every combination and permutation of native and non-native and found no consistent cure. in the end, not a permissions thing. solus repo wouldnt talk to flatpak browser, then vice versa, then all mixed up.
the lesson was use all flatpak browsers and pw managers or all repo flatpak and browsers. but that's not feasible.
A cure was this awesome appimage I found called buttercup. it accepts all browsers🙂. then all these pw problems went aways in solus for me.

WetGeek

brent solus repo wouldnt talk to flatpak browser, then vice versa, then all mixed up.

Could that be because the flatpak browser was walled off in its own sandbox?

brent

WetGeek I believe that was the reason but it took too many days to come to that conclusion!!!

but many times the browser extension and flatpak pw manager (and vice versa) would talk but no action (ie fill password field). we tried to beat that variable (sandbox) but there was no beating it...at least by my recollection.

brent

MODS: kindly mark solved. went back to buttercup. it wasn't broke and its offline.

stalebrim

brent always better to go with a rich password manager

brent

stalebrim compared to a cli app, buttercup is feature-rich. really, lazy me, I only want it to fill in the login fields for me and nothing else.
my search for CLI began when I did a sh**-load of reading about browser extenstions being the true achilles heel of every browser. one bad actor, one unaudited piece of code and you are entirely compromised. I shouldnt read so much.