How to secure passwords with gopass on multiple devices?

When we work with data we can use different ways of security. For my own project where I often use scripts on Linux machines, I figured out how to keep passwords safe. I used gopass. This is an open source UNIX password manager that uses gpg and version control with git. This means that passwords are encrypted and decrypted with gpg while keeping all the changes in a Git repository. This makes it very very flexible, because a git clone can always be made in case a new machine needs to be set up or if several devices want to use the password manager. If you are comfortable with the command-line interface keep reading, because we are going to execute multiple commands! I’m going to demonstrate these commands on a Linux (Debian OS) machine, but feel free to use another system. ...

March 18, 2023 · 5 min · Arash Jalalat