passata

A simple password manager, inspired by pass.

Supports a subset of pass's commands and options and unlike pass, all passwords are stored in a single (gpg encrypted) file. It also has the keepassx-like ability to automatically type passwords based on the active window's title.

Installation

Requirements:

• Python 3.6 or newer
• Python libraries: click, PyYAML, pyinotify
• Software: gpg, xdotool, dmenu, libnotify, xsel

For example for Arch Linux run:

# pacman -S python-click python-yaml python-pyinotify gnupg xdotool dmenu libnotify xsel

Install passata itself using setup.py. Note that doing so might make startup too slow and cause a noticeable latency on autotyping. You may want to just put passata.py to $PATH instead.

If you want to use zsh completion, you can copy _passata to a directory in $fpath. /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/ will probably do.

Once passata has been initialized (by running passata init), you can import a keepassx2 database exported as csv, using the import_csv.py script.

Usage

$ passata --help
Usage: passata [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  A simple password manager, inspired by pass.

Options:
  --config PATH  Path of the configuration file.
  --version      Show the version and exit.
  --help         Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  autotype  Type login credentials.
  edit      Edit entry, group or the whole database.
  find      List matching entries in a tree-like format.
  generate  Generate a random password.
  init      Initialize password database.
  insert    Insert a new password.
  ls        List entries in a tree-like format.
  mv        Move or rename entries.
  rm        Remove entries or groups.
  show      Show entry, group or the whole database.

See passata <command> --help for more info on a specific command.

Autotype

By running passata autotype, passata tries to find the entry that matches the active window's title. Specifically it looks for entries whose name or any string in the keywords field, is included in the title (case insensitive). If there are zero or more than one such entries, the user is prompted to choose the right one using dmenu. Finally the sequence that is specified in the autotype field of the chosen entry is typed using xdotool.

This is supposed to be used by adding a keybinding for passata autotype to your window manager's configuration.

The keywords field can contain a string or list of strings.

The autotype field supports the following items:

• <field>: Types the contents of the given field of the entry (e.g. <username>).
• Key: Sends the specified keystroke (e.g. Tab, Return). See man xdotool for more information.
• !time: Sleeps for the given time (e.g. !0.5). Can be used to wait for the next page to load for services like gmail, where the username and password forms are on different pages.

The default autotype field is <username> Tab <password> Return if there is both a <username> and a <password> field, or <password> Return if there is only a <password>.

This feature is based on pass-autotype, which I recommend if you want something similar and prefer pass.

Example

An entry for a google account could look like that:

$ passata show internet/google
username: user
password: pass
autotype: <username> Return !1.5 <password> Return
keywords:
- youtube
- gmail

License

Licensed under GPLv3 or any later version.