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greenjeans

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Registered: 2025-01-18

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Basic local password manager

Hey guys, so i've been working on a new project, a dirt-simple no-frills
local password manager, had the idea a while back after making a note-taking
app as it seemed like I could re-use about 90% of the code, just needed to
add encryption. As it turned out I only used about 40-50% of it, lol, but
that's okay because it still saved me a lot of time and the skeleton for it
was very simple and robust. Been pounding on it hard for the last 3 days and
I think i'm at an alpha-testing stage now.

Nothing fancy, so basic it hurts, no autofill or anything like that, basically
just a sort of text-editor with encryption. You have to manually enter all your
info, to use it you'll need to copy/paste info into whatever browser you're using.
Only depends are GTK and libsodium, and it's tiny, one binary that's just
under 45 kb. It stores everything in an encrypted text file so no need for
sqlite and such.

If anyone is interested in giving it a try, let me know and i'll post the
source code and compile instructions, or if you don't feel like compiling
i'll probably post it up on my Sourceforge, maybe if i'm not too lazy today
i'll actually package it even.

Please be sure to always backup first, everybody should really have a hard
copy pen+paper backup of sensitive files like passwords. When testing just
start with dummy entries, there could be bugs but I can't find any more
right now, it's such a tiny script there's not much to go wrong.

Sector11

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Registered: 2015-08-20

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Re: Basic local password manager

OH I do like the looks of that.

IF I forget the "master password" would uninstall, re-install start it fresh or does a file hide someplace on the system?

Can passwords be changed/edited?

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greenjeans

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Re: Basic local password manager

Hi! So if you forget the master password to unlock the vault, you're hosed, there's no retrieving that data. This is by design, it's a simple app but hardcore. That's why you should definitely have it written down somewhere. The master password once set, cannot be changed unless you delete the vault and start over with a new first run, but the old vault cannot be retrieved so you would need to start fresh and enter all your data. Your master password is not stored anywhere on your machine. There is also no multiple attempts while the app is open to submit a password, if you enter the wrong one you get an error message that you have to click to close, and then the app closes, and you'll need to re-open it to try again, VERY good reason for this. Like I said, it's pretty hardcore.

All the entries you make are 100% editable, site name, passwords, and content.

Sector11

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From: Upstairs

Registered: 2015-08-20

Posts: 8,123

Re: Basic local password manager

That I think answers my question.
I forgot the master password ....
Delete the program and start over.

but the old vault cannot be retrieved so you would need to start fresh and enter all your data

is the "old vault" deleted when the program is deleted OR over written when the program is re-installed and I start recreating my data from my $1.99 paper notepad.

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