NAME
keydex — 🔒 Terminal based password manager for KeePass databases.
SYNOPSIS
https://github.com/shikaan/keydex/releasesINFO
DESCRIPTION
🔒 Terminal based password manager for KeePass databases.
README
keydex
Terminal based password manager for KeePass databases.
⚡️ Quick start
Installation
MacOS and Linux
sudo sh -c "curl -s https://shikaan.github.io/sup/install | REPO=shikaan/keydex sh -"
or
sudo sh -c "wget -q https://shikaan.github.io/sup/install -O- | REPO=shikaan/keydex sh -"
Windows and manual instructions
Head to the releases page and download the executable for your system and architecture.
Usage
You can get started simply opening your database.
# opens the interactive editor
keydex open ~/example.kdbx
However, the most common use case for keydex is copying a password to your clipboard.
# copies password from the referenced entry (or stdinput)
keydex copy ~/example.kdbx /example/group/entry
Using environment variables and aliases you can save a couple of keystrokes
# ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc export KEYDEX_PASSPHRASE=${MY_SECRET_PHRASE} export KEYDEX_DATABASE=~/example.kdbxalias entry-pwd="keydex copy /example/group/entry"
and then you can use it like
$ entry-pwd
Opening a given entry and listing accept environment variables too.
# opens the editor at the given location keydex open /example/group/entrylists all the entries in the database
keydex list
Interoperability
keydex was designed to integrate in your existing workflow: it accepts inputs from stdin and can be piped to your existing toolchain.
For example, here's an of how you can use it to browse entries with fzf
# copy entry's password selected with fzf to the clipboard
keydex list | fzf | keydex copy
📄 Documentation
More detailed documentation can be found here.
🤓 Contributing
Have a look through existing Issues and Pull Requests that you could help with. If you'd like to request a feature or report a bug, please create a GitHub Issue.