keysafe - linux password manager
Recently, i needed to find out some passwords for extremely rarely used but very important sites. (That’s why they have real password, not the ‘junk’ password used for junk i don’t care about). I keep my passwords in an encrypted text file. gpg is used for encryption. While it’s pretty safe (it uses RSA after all), it’s a little inconvenient to work with. I need to: decompress-update-compress-remove_old_file. So i decided to try a password manager.
A looked at several screenshots and i liked keysafe (besides, it’s already on AUR, so installation is just typing one command ‘aurbuild -sa keysafe’). It’s really nice. The application is split to two executables: one for editing the password database (relatively rarely used) and another for getting the passwords - small and fast GUI. Both look convenient and work fast.
There’s one strange thing though - in the editing GUI the password is visible (not masked by * as it usually done) - which is ok, since it’s more convenient to edit it like this, but there’s a filed for password confirmation (usually used when password is masked the we want to ensure user did not make a typo). If the password is visible - why do i need a password confirmation?
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