Passlane

A lightning-fast password manager for the command line

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Features

Generate passwords
Place the generated password into the clipboard
Save previously generated password from the clipboard
Sync 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 (base) ➜ temp passlane -h passlane 0.1.4 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 -d, --delete Delete passwords by service. Use together with --keychain to also delete from the keychain. -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
Run passlane --> gnerates and saves a new 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:

Run passlane -g foobard.com --> copies foobar.com's password to clipboard.
Use the password from clipboard to login

bash $ passlane -g google.com Please enter master password: Found 9 matches: +---+-----------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | | Service | Username/email | +==============================================================================================+ | 0 | https://accounts.google.com/signin/v2/challenge/pwd | jack@megacorp.com | |---+-----------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------| | 1 | https://accounts.google.com/signin/v2/challenge/pwd | jack1p@gmail.com | |---+-----------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------| | 2 | https://accounts.google.com/signin/v2/challenge/pwd | jck@hey.com | |---+-----------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------| | 3 | https://accounts.google.com/signin/v2/challenge/pwd | jackrussel@gmail.com | |---+-----------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------| To copy one of these passwords to clipboard, please enter a row number from the table above, or press q to exit: 3 Password from index 3 copied to clipboard!

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

[] online sync service?
[] web UI for the online service
[x] delete passwords
[x] show grep results in a table, copy password to clipboard by row index
[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