Gpg Password Grep

• This is a small perl hack, nothing fancy..

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idea

• have your passwords in gpg encrypted files.
• generation / maintainence is easy: use vim

  • http://www.vi-improved.org/wiki/index.php/VimGpg

  • or: TomK32 found https://github.com/jamessan/vim-gnupg - never tested it myself

• extraction with the pwgrep utility - ends up in X selection buffer so you can apply it with middle mouse click

example / usage

• password files are located in $HOME/.p/
• this is hardcoded (it's a small script.. easy to change)
• assume: a hostgroup called 'foo' with 2 machines: 'alpha' and 'donkey'

• sample password file $HOME/.p/foo.gpg

• alpha root ptZPXbQrRI3kWesiJGZwzmx
  alpha mysql root o4Sl3DuCRfmVzx7ywcGlI2k
  alpha mysql app n956i87PPmAaBWBlEPD6TI7
  
  donkey root IODtmQ9QEnDUAyqkRMJVwPn
  donkey user UZQ7IWXUXnU5Ib5wcAFpB0r

• password exctraction:

• $  pwgrep foo alpha mysql
  ## gpg password stuff ommited - nice if you use gpg-agent or similar stuff (with timeouts of course..)
  several results found:
   0: alpha mysql root
   1: alpha mysql app
  select a result: 0
  selected alpha mysql root

• now the mysql root password of machine alpha is selected

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