[pass] copying usernames and urls

George Angelopoulos george at usermod.net
Tue Apr 29 15:16:55 CEST 2014


There is a disadvantage to this. I leaves all your usernames/logins
exposed. When I push my password-store to an untrusted remote repo, I
wouldn't like it to know what all my usernames are on various sites.

On 04/29/2014 04:08 PM, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:03 PM, George Angelopoulos
> <l4than.d3vers at gmail.com <mailto:l4than.d3vers at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have some ideas about how this could work, but all of them are
>     terrible. I know that I can restructure my directories and create
>     separate entries for the usernames, but that doesn't seem like a good
>     idea either, considering that this isn't some completely fringe thing
>     I'm trying to accomplice and quite standard on other password
>     managers.
>
>
> Well, other password managers also provide proprietary databases and
> clunky UIs as a standard.
>
> I've been using the following schema quite successfully:
>
> * Accounts with standard login name (either primary email or primary
> username) are stored under the name of the website.
> * Accounts with non-standard login name are stored under <website
> name>/<account-name>
>
> As I see from passmenu description, this scheme does not break
> incremental search and also gives an instant hint on username.
>  
> Best regards,
> Mikhail Gusarov.
>
>
>
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