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    From August Abolins@618:400/23.10 to All on Sun Feb 1 19:41:00 2026

    Just recently, I was steered to this site..

    https://www.passwordstore.org/

    And in there, I realized that a very simple self-managed password "vault" can be created with just using gpg from the command line.

    For example, if you wanted to store a password for Ebay..

    gpp -o pw-for-ebay.gpg -e -r [myID] -

    ..and the system will open stdin for typing. when done, hit new-line, and ctrl-C [probably ^D in linux], and the file is created with the string stored inside.

    H:\temp>gpg -o pw-for-ebay.gpg -e -r august -
    File 'pw-for-ebay.gpg' exists. Overwrite? (y/N) y
    updated pw is ... blahblahblah111
    ^C

    When you need to view the pw:

    H:\temp>gpg -d pw-for-ebay.gpg
    gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID 583B29AD69D0999F, created 2020-01-02
    "August Abolins <august@kolico.ca>"
    updated pw is ... blahblahblah111

    So.. it's relatively simple to have a safe directory with all the pw*.gpg files like that.

    Combine that with rclone and a remote defined as "crypt", you can keep a copy of the directory in the cloud where you could access the contents from any other device that has rclone.





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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to August Abolins on Tue Feb 3 19:14:26 2026
    Re: self-managed passwords with gpg
    By: August Abolins to All on Sun Feb 01 2026 07:41 pm


    Combine that with rclone and a remote defined as "crypt", you can keep a copy of the directory in the cloud where you could access the contents from any other device that has rclone.

    Actually, the intended way of achieving that is using passwor-store's git integration. You are supposed to create a git repository to which you upload (with pass git push) and from which you download your updates (with pass git pull)


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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/1 to Arelor on Tue Feb 3 20:40:09 2026
    Hello Arelor,

    03 Feb 26 19:14, you wrote to August Abolins:

    Actually, the intended way of achieving that is using passwor-store's
    git integration. You are supposed to create a git repository to which
    you upload (with pass git push) and from which you download your
    updates (with pass git pull)

    That makes sense.

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