2025-01-26 - Puss Password Manager
==================================

I wrote about the pass Unix password manager [1] [2].

After a recent Slackware install, the pass script began to delay for
60 seconds or more before prompting me for my GPG password.  I
tracked the delay down to gpg2 waiting for pinentry.  I could work
around the delay by adding the following line to my
.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

     no-allow-external-cache

It may be related to me importing the GNU project keyring [3] to
validate source code archives. The GNU project keyring has over
12,000 signatures!

    $ gpg2 --list-signatures | wc -l
    12019

While troubleshooting this, i asked for help in the #pass IRC channel
on libera.chat.  I did not receive help, but i received a
condescending attitude about me running X11 instead of Wayland.  I
want better than that.

I found a minimal script named puss.sh.  I modified it to be a
drop-in replacement for the pass password-store Unix password
manager.  I copied my ~/.password-store/ to ~/.pusswordstore/ and
started using puss.sh [4] instead of pass.

This resolves all of the items on my wishlist for the pass Unix
password manager.

* No condescension.
* No delay of over 60 seconds to decrypt a password.
* Support NO_COLOR standard.  (Colors are not ever used.)
* Support for CSV export. [5]

2025-05-19 - puss.sh version 7
------------------------------

* Make "puss search" case insensitive.
* Catch wrong password in "puss edit" to avoid data loss.

tags: bencollver,technical,unix,versus

Footnotes
=========

[1] Pass Unix Password Manager
<gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/log/
2022-02-24-pass-unix-password-manager/>

[2] Export Password Store
<gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/log/
2024-10-14-export-password-store/>

[3] GNU project keyring
<https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg>

[4] puss.sh
<gopher://tilde.pink/0/~bencollver/log/
2025-01-26-puss-password-manager/puss.txt>

[5] pass-export-csv
<gopher://tilde.pink/0/~bencollver/log/
2024-10-14-export-password-store/pass-export-csv.txt>

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technical
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unix
<gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/log/tag/unix/>
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