[pass] Setup for multiple password stores

Niklas Hambüchen mail at nh2.me
Mon Feb 8 21:38:20 CET 2016


I also recommend using PASSWORD_STORE_DIR.

Also goes well with using that in a shell alias, e.g. `alias otherpurpose-pass='PASSWORD_STORE_DIR=~/.password-store-otherpurpose pass'`. That way it's harder to forget setting the environment variable.
On 08/02/16 19:55, Anne Jan Brouwer wrote:
> I use the PASSWORD_STORE_DIR environment variable.
>
> And so do the QtPass "profiles".
>
> Anne Jan
>
> On 8 February 2016 19:51:35 CET, Adam Liter <adam.liter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I'm wondering what setup folks use for having multiple password stores,
>     particularly when one of those password stores is shared between
>     multiple people.
>
>     Currently, I'm using a .git directory inside of ~/.password-store that
>     has git submodules.
>
>     For example, I currently have the following directory structure:
>
>      ├─ .password-store
>       ├─ personal
>       └─ collaborative-project
>
>     where personal is my personal store of passwords and
>     collaborative-project contains passwords for a project that I'm working
>     on with somebody else. Both of these are submodules of the top-level git
>     directory so that the collaborative-project—but not the
>     personal—repository can be shared with somebody else via git cloning,
>     pushing, and pulling from/to a cloud-hosted git repository.
>
>     However, this setup causes the automatic git committing that pass do
>      es
>     to break. For example, running:
>
>      pass generate personal/asdf 22
>
>     produces:
>
>      fatal: Pathspec '/Users/adamliter/.password-store/personal/asdf.gpg' is
>     in submodule 'personal'
>      The generated password for personal/asdf is:
>      py?Je17K6Bfs|Pj at qspgE1
>
>     So it does generate the password, but the git commits are not correctly
>     written.
>
>     Currently, I'm just manually committing things myself, but I'm wondering
>     if there is a better setup or workflow to deal with this sort of
>     situation.
>
>     Thanks!
>
>     (And thanks, Jason, for an awesome password manager! :) )
>
>     -Adam
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