Manage Password Using gopass

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Tips and Traps¶

Installation on Fedora¶

sudo dnf install gopass age

Initialization¶

It is strongly recommended that you use the gitfs storage.

gopass setup --crypto age --storage gitfs \
    --remote "gitUrl" \
    --name "userName" \
    --email "userEmail"

which create an age identities file at ~/.config/gopass/age/identities . The configuration file of gopass is at ~/.config/gopass/config .

Manual Configuration for Git Sync¶

If you have used fs (not recommended) instead of gitfs (strongly recommended) (gopass setup --crypto age --storage fs) , you can still manually enable Git Sync using the following configuration. However, files added before enabling Git Sync (e.g., .age-recipients) are not automatically tracked, so you have to manually track and commit them.

gopass config user.name "Your Name"
gopass config user.email "you@example.com"
gopass git init
gopass git remote add origin git@github.com:username/my-secrets-repo.git

Configuration for Timeout¶

gopass config age.agent-enabled true
gopass config age.agent-timeout 900

Manage Passwords¶

gopass insert api_keys/github

gopass show api_keys/github