Passlane
A lightning-fast password generator for the command line
Features
- Generate passwords
- Places the generated password into the clipboard
- Save previously generated password from the clipboard
- Syncs the generated password to OS specific keychains, including Mac's iCloud Keychain
- Import passwords from CSV files
Installation
- Download the latest release
- Unpack the archive
- Place the unarchived binary
passlane
to your $PATH
- Enjoy!
Usage
```bash
passlane --help
passlane 0.1.0
Anssi Piirainen anssip@email.com
A password manager for the command line. Syncs with the Keychain.
USAGE:
passlane [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS:
-c, --csv Import credentials from a CSV file
-g, --grep Grep passwords by service
-h, --help Print help information
-k, --keychain Sync credentials to Keychain. Syncs all store credentials when specified as
the only option. When used together with --save, syncs only the password in
question
-m, --master-pwd Update master password
-s, --save Save the last generated password
-v, --verbose Verobose: show password values when grep option finds several matches
-V, --version Print version information
```
Generate a new password
- Sign up for a new service in the web browser
- Hit
CMD
+ space
and run passlane
--> saves the password to the clipboard
- Use the generated password from the clipboard
- After successful signup: Open terminal and run
passlane -s
to save the password
Using saved credentials
Later on, when logging in to foobar.com:
- Hit
CMD
+ space
and run passlane -g foobard.com
--> copies foobar.com's password to clipboard
- Use th password from clipboard to login
or alternatively
- Let MacOS propose the saved password. It knows it because Passlane also syncs to the keychain.
Syncing with the system Keychain
Passlane uses the keyring crate to sync credentials to the operating system's keychain. Syncing should work on Linux, iOS, macOS, and Windows.
Use option -s
together with -k
to save the last generated password to the Passlane storage file and to the keychain:
passlane -s -k
To sync all Passlane stored options to the keychain use the -k
option alone:
passlane -k
Migrating from 1Password, LastPass, Dashlane etc.
You can import credentials from a CSV file. With this approach, you can easily migrate from less elegant and often expensive commercial services.
First, make sure that the CSV file has a header line (1st line) with the following column titles:
- username
- password
- service
The service
field is the URL or name of the service. When importing from Dashlane, the only necessary preparation is to rename url
to service
.
To export the credentials to a CSV file and import the file into Passlane:
bash
passlane --csv <path_to_csv_file>
Here are links to instructions for doing the CSV export:
TODO
- [x] if "Failed: Unable to retrieve value from clipboard" --> prompt for the password to be saved
- [x] [read password without showing input](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28924134/how-can-i-get-password-input-without-showing-user-input)
- [x] import from CSV
- [x] separate CLI option to sync to keychain
- [x] possibility to show passwords when multiple search matches
- [] delete passwords
- [] online sync?