[pass] A web view/integration

GOYOT Martin martin at piwany.com
Mon Feb 8 10:04:22 CET 2016


Hello Alexandre,

Thanks for the tip, I decided to use the android app.

This said I would love you to explain me why this would be a bad idea. This
could work exactly like what LastPass is doing for instance.

Regards,
-- Martin

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:00 AM Alexandre PUJOL <list at pujol.io> wrote:

> Using git, you can use any git sever and git web app (like cgit) as a
> pass web viewer. Then, the git server will allow you to sync your
> passwords between you device, and thus use the good pass client for your
> device (pass, pass-ios, Android-Password-Store...)
>
> However the git web app only output the tree of the password directory.
> The content itself stay encrypted. Do NOT try to create a tool in order
> to decrypt and output it in a web browser. As said Dashamir Hoxha it
> would not be a good idea at all.
> Because you must NOT:
> - Use any server to decrypt your password.
> - Use JavaScript to decrypt the password directly in a web browser.
>
> This is why there is not pass web app, all the pass server you would
> ever need already exist it is a git server.
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
> On 07/02/16 20:57, GOYOT Martin wrote:
> > Oh I didn't know of keybase. Looks like a really interesting project!
> >
> > Also I don't know if Kenny Stier had the mailing list in copy when he
> > replied to me, but he pointed me to two mobile applications that can
> > deal with pass:
> >
> > https://github.com/zeapo/Android-Password-Store
> > https://github.com/davidjb/pass-ios#readme
> >
> > I decided to give the android app a try, and for my really small test
> > until now, looks good!
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 8:24 PM Santiago Borrazás <sanbor at gmail.com
> > <mailto:sanbor at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Also, maybe using the Keybase
> >     filesystem https://keybase.io/introducing-the-keybase-filesystem
> >
> >     On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Dashamir Hoxha
> >     <dashohoxha at gmail.com <mailto:dashohoxha at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         In principle, you can use `git clone` or `rsync` to copy
> >         ~/.password-store to a portable device (usb, phone, smartphone,
> >         etc.). You can copy there the corresponding GPG key as well.
> >         Then, on another computer, you can tell pass to use the data on
> >         the portable device by setting environment variables like this:
> >
> >         export PASSWORD_STORE_DIR="/dev/sdb1/.password-store"
> >         export PASSWORD_STORE_GPG_OPTS="--homedir=/dev/sdb1/.gnupg"
> >
> >         Or you can define an alias like this:
> >
> >         alias pass="PASSWORD_STORE_DIR='/dev/sdb1/.password-store'
> >         PASSWORD_STORE_GPG_OPTS='--homedir=/dev/sdb1/.gnupg' pass"
> >
> >         I haven't tried this but it should work. Maybe somebody has
> >         written any blog or tutorial about this, with more detailed
> >         instructions.
> >
> >         Sorry, I know nothing about any web interface to pass. And I
> >         don't even think it would be a good idea.
> >
> >         Regards,
> >         Dashamir
> >
> >         On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 6:11 PM, GOYOT Martin <martin at piwany.com
> >         <mailto:martin at piwany.com>> wrote:
> >
> >             Hello there,
> >
> >             This is my first mail here, so if I'm doing anything wrong
> >             please tell me. I just wanted to know if there was any web
> >             app or mobile app that was able to deal with the pass
> >             utility as a backend.
> >
> >             I'm using pass since quite some time now, and I really love
> >             it. But sometimes I need to access my passwords and sadly
> >             I'm not on my own computer with pass installed, my gpg key
> >             and so on. So I was wondering if something like a web or
> >             mobile interface capable to answer this problematic already
> >             exists.
> >
> >             Regards,
> >             -- Martin
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