PWMan by Ivan Kelly <ivan@ivankelly.net>
PWMan is a password manager which uses gpg encryption to safeguard your data. Some code has been taken from Jaakko Heinonen's abook.
COMPILATION
To compile you must have ncurses installed on you system. You also need libxml. Usage relies on Gnu Privacy Guard (gpg) being installed.
INSTALLATION
Read INSTALL
SETUP
When you first run pwman, it will prompt you for several things:
- GnuPG ID This is the ID of the GnuPG identity that will be used to encrypt the password database. You can specify this as your email address, or as the 8 (hex) digit key ID See http://www.dewinter.com/gnupg_howto/english/GPGMiniHowto.html if you are new to GnuPG, and need help importing or creating keys.
- Path to GnuPG PWMan needs to call GnuPG, to get it to decrypt and encrypt the password database. So, you need to tell PWMan where to find your copy of pgp
- Password Database File This is the filename to use for storing your password database in.
- Passphrase Timeout PWMan only remembers your GnuPG password for a limted amount of time. After this period has elapsed, you will need to re-enter it. This timeout is there as a security measure, in case you wander off from your computer without logging out.
These configuration settings will be written to your home directory. You can change them at any time by running pwman, and pressing 'o' at any time.
GETTING HELP
Once pwman is running, and you have entered your (GnuPG) passphrase, you can hit '?' to get up the program help. This will tell you what all the keys are to perform actions in pwman.
LICENSE
All files in this distribution are released under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC
LICENSE.
See COPYING FOR DETAILS.
CONTACT AUTHOR
Send bugreports, fixes, wishes etc. to Nick Burch <code@gagravarr.org>