pwman3

PWMAN3

A nice command line password manager, which is smart enough to use different SQL Databases (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL).
Pwman3 can also copy passwords to the clipboard (on Mac and Linux) without exposing them, so you save some typing. Besides managing and storing passwords, Pwman3 can also generate passwords using different algorithms.

Nice Features in pwman3:

• copying of passwords to clipboard
• lauching specific uri's with default browser
• password generators

Installing

Pwman3 requires the following debian packages:

when using python 2.4:

python-pysqlite2

python-celementtree

python-crypto

when using python >= 2.5

python-crypto

for nicer functionality:

xsel - to copy password to clipboard on Linux

Pwman now uses argparse, which is only available in Python 2.7. Therefore, if you intend to use pwman3 with an older version of Python, please do so before installing:

$ cp scripts/pwman3 scripts/pwman3_bkup
$ cp scripts/pwman3_old scripts/pwman3

Note that the old startup script of pwman3 might have limited functionality compared to the newer version.

To install:

$ python setup.py install

User Insterface

1. When xsel is install on a Linux system, you can copy passwords directly to clipboard with the copy command.
2. The command 'open' will open the default browser if URL is specified.

3. An automatic 'clear screen' function is called after printing an entry in the database. The screen will be cleared after 5 seconds by default. However, this can be changed by changing the correct value in ~.pwman/config:

     [Global]
     ...
     cls_timeout = 10
   

   To disable the automatic 'clear screen' functionality set cls_timeout to a negative integer.

     [Global]
     ...
     cls_timeout = -1
   

ikegam's function

• making a password from the numeric character and the alphabet character ([A-Za-z0-9]).

You can add a parameter for making the password to the config(~/.pwman/config).

For Example:

 ```
 [Generator]
 numerics = true
 ```

• Passwords can be l33tified similarly using the following.

   [Generator]
   leetify = true
  

• Passwords can contain one of the following special signs:

  specialsigns = ["@", "#", "?", "!", '\\', "|", "$",
                   "%", "^", "&", "*", "(", ")", ":", ";",
                   "{", "}", "+","-"]
  

The config file must have the following option:

```
[Generator]
special_signs = true
```

• Individual password policy can be chosen with:

   Pwman3 0.2.1 (c) visit: http://github.com/pwman3/pwman3
   pwman> n {'leetify':False, 'numerics':True, 'special_signs':True}
   Username: username
   Password length (default 7): 7
   New password: Q1dab@7
  

• Copying password to X11 or Mac clip board:

  • On Mac OSX systems copying utilizes pbcopy
    

  • On X11 Systems Specify the path to xsel if you already have ~/.pwman/config

    [Global]
    xsel = yes
    xselpath = /usr/bin/xsel
    

  When launching pwman for the first time, it will try and look for xsel and write the configuration properly.

Password leetifying

If you choose to leetify your passwords when generating passwords, e.g. leetify = true in ~/.pwman/config, password lengths may exceed the length chosen. This is because certain letters will be replaced with 2 or more characters. That is, if an initial random password was generated as : Murkahm1 it will eventually be set to: |\/|ur|<ham1. To see to full leet list checkout line 79 in pwman/util/generator.py or issue in your terminal:

 python -c'from pwman.util import generator; print generator.leetlist'