PW

PW is a personal, GPG-based, password manager.

Installation

• You must have erlang installed[0].
• Head over to the releases page and grab the latest release.
• Stick the pw binary somewhere in your PATH.

Usage

# Get a prompt to add a new password named google.com.
$ pw add google

# List all passwords
$ pw ls | grep google

# Print google.com password to stdout.
$ pw get google

# Rename a password.
$ pw mv google personal/google.com

# Remove a password
$ pw rm personal/google.com

# Get help
$ pw -h

A typical flow for me looks like the following:

$ pw add personal/google.com
Encrypting personal/google.com to andrewpthorp@gmail.com.
Type the contents of personal/google.com, end with a blank line:
username: andrewpthorp@gmail.com
password: mypass
[enter]

# Two weeks later, when I can't remember what the password was stored as.
$ pw ls | grep google
personal/google.com

$ pw get personal/google.com
Contents of personal/google.com:
username: andrewpthorp@gmail.com
password: mypass

Use pw -h to see all available options.

Configuration

You can create a file ~/.pw with some configuration.

# ~/.pw
directory=~/pw
recipient=<your_gpg_key>

directory is where the passwords will be stored, recipient is what is passed to gpg as the -r for encryption.

Inspiration

• Internal project for password management used by Stripe.
• pw by nelhage.

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[0] Why build something that requires erlang for distribution? It was a fun way to learn Elixir!