pykeys

A simple password manager on the command line

Description

pykeys works with the following modes:

• add: store an existing password in the manager
• create: create a new password
• lookup: retrieve a password
• remove: remove a stored password
• dump: print out all passwords

Usage

pykeys <mode> <options> Where <mode> is one of the modes above

Each mode takes in it's own options:

add

pykeys add <loc> <password>

• <loc> is the location the password goes to
• <password> is the password to use

create

pykeys create [-d] [-c <loc>] [-l <length>] [-s <specials>] [-n <numbers>] [-u <uppercases>]

• -d is to use the default values for the quantities (length of 16, 4 special characters, 4 numbers, 4 uppercase characters, and 4 lowercase characters
• -c is to specify the location this is used for. If none is provided, the user will be prompted
• -l is to specify the length of the password. If not provided, and no -d, the user will be prompted
• -s is to specify the number of special characters. If not provided, and no -d, the user will be prompted
• -n is to specify the number of numbers. If not provided, and no -d, the user will be prompted
• -u is to specify the number of uppercase characters. If not provided, and no -d, the user will be prompted

lookup

pykeys lookup <loc>

• <loc> should be the value of the password to lookup

remove

pykeys remove <loc>

• <loc> should be the value of the location to remove the password from

dump