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-# Passoword Managemet from the Command Line
-
- February 8, 2018
-
-Today we will look at some simple, portable yet effective ways to manage
-your passwords from the command line. You will need nothing more than
-**apg** and one of **gnugpg** or **openssl** along with your favorite
-text editor.
-
-~~~~~~~~~~ {.bash}
-apt install apg gnupg openssl
-~~~~~~~~~~
-
-## Generate your Password
-
-Before you can manage your passwords, you will obviously first have to
-generate them. Since your brain might be a very poor random number
-generator you can use `/dev/random` here.
-
-A few examples for generating random passwords with **apg** follow:
-
-~~~~~~~~~~ {.bash}
-# generate a few random passwords with default settings using /dev/random
-apg -c /dev/random
-
-# set password length to 20-30 characters and generate 10 passwords
-apg -m20 -x30 -n10 -c /dev/random
-
-Example output:
- gootCoHuecJarItOojBouFrag
- OignisholWulfisOdPearshed
- fekfedsornUgbacyoimyab
- ...
-
-# Other useful flags:
-#- a0 pronouncable
-# -a1 random
-
-# If you use -a1 you can specify the symbolset with -M
-# You can combine multiple -M options as in: -MCnS
-
-# -MC / -Mc must/can use small leters set
-# -MC / -Mc must/can use capital symbol set
-# -MN / -Mn must/can use numeral symbol set
-# -MS / -Ms must/can use special symbol set
-
-
-# Finally we can exclude specific characters from the symbol set with -E
-apg -a1 -m10 -MN -E 02345678 -c /dev/random
-
-Example output:
- 9119191199
- 9919119919
- 1199999911
- ...
-~~~~~~~~~~
-
-## Managing your Password Safe
-
-Just put the passwords in a plaintext file (named mypasswords in the examples below),
-along with related data and encrypt them symmetrically via **gnupg**.
-Decrypt them as needed. You will be prompted for a passphrase in each case.
-
-Note that **gnupg** might cache your password for a few minutes,
-so don’t worry if you can decrypt them without beeing prompted.
-
-~~~~~~~~~~ {.bash}
-#encrypyt. Don't forget to delete the source file
-gpg -c mypasswords
-
-#decrypt and write to STDOUT
-gpg -d mypasswords.gpg
-~~~~~~~~~~
-
-You might prefer openssl, which some claim to be even more portable
-
-~~~~~~~~~~ {.bash}
-#encrypyt. Don't forget to delete the source file
-openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -in mypasswords > mypasswords.aes
-
-#decrypt and write to STDOUT
-openssl aes-256-cbc -d -in mypasswords.aes
-~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Adding, Editing or Deleting a password constitutes simply of the three steps:
-
-* decrypt your password file and save it in a safe place
-* edit the passwordfile as needed with your favorite text editor
-* encrypt the password flie back again