pwman3

PWMAN3

A nice command line password manager, which can use different database to store your passwords (currently, SQLite, MySQL,

and PostGresql are supported).  

Pwman3 can also copy passwords to the clipboard without exposing them! Besides managing and storing passwords, Pwman3 can also generate passwords using different algorithms.

Nice Features in pwman3:

• copying of passwords to clipboard
• launching specific uri's with default browser
• password generators
• not really a user oriented feature. However, it guarantees the elimination of silly bugs: pwman3 is test driven!

A very important note about security

If you are a concerned about security, please note: PWMAN3 is a very very basic software, which was designed to be used in a safe environment.

• If you are afraid that PWMAN3 is to weak for your needs ... and you still want to try it, here are a few recommendations:
  1. Don't store your Password Database in the Obvious place, and if your extremely paranoind store it completely away from your computer on a separate USB key.
  2. Use a HARD to crack password to encrypt your database!
• If you care, report bugs, and send patches.
• I would realy like you to use PWMAN3, so I could get feedback and more ideas, especially, if you know something about security!
  

Installing

Pwman3 requires the following debian packages:

python-colorama python-crypto xsel - to copy password to clipboard on Linux

Pwman only supports Python 2.7.

To install from source:

$ python setup.py install

You can also install PWMAN3 using python pip:

$ pip install pwman3

Windows Users:

Before installing pwman3 you need to install PyCrypto. To you can install PyCrypto with:

python setup install_pycrypto

When done, issue:

python setup install

If you are more picky then you can compile PyCrypto using the instruction bellow.

After you downloaded the source code of pycrypto and extracted it do the following inisde the source code direcotry:

C:\Temp\pycrypto> python setup.py build -c mingw32 
C:\Temp\pycrypto> python setup.py bdist_wininst

Now you should be able to run pwman3 on Windows.

On Windows 7 64bit:

PyCrypto builds with mingw gcc version 4.6.2. Note that you also need msys installed from mingw. The above setup commands won't work in the Windows command prompt. But they do work in the msys command prompt. You also need to edit the following file:

C:\Python27\Lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py

Before doing anything on this file make sure you create a backup! After that remove all references for `-mno-cygwin.

and after all that, if you a security minded person, who is capable of using a command line password: Do your self a favor and skip Windows. Try Linux\BSD*Nix OS.

## User Interface

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
  

• Default password length can be changed by:

  [Generator]
  default_pw_length = 42
  

• 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'