gopass

README

gopass

The slightly more awesome Standard Unix Password Manager for Teams. Written in Go.

Table of Contents

1. Abstract
2. Demo
3. Features
4. Installation
5. Development
6. Credit & License
7. Community
8. Contributing
9. Acknowledgements
10. Further Documentation

Abstract

Password management should be simple and follow Unix philosophy. With pass, each secret lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the secret. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities. - passwordstore.org

gopass is a rewrite of the pass password manager in Go with the aim of making it cross-platform and adding additional features. Our target audience are professional developers and sysadmins (and especially teams of those) who are well versed with a command line interface. One explicit goal for this project is to make it more approachable to non-technical users. We go by the UNIX philosophy and try to do one thing and do it well, providing a stellar user experience and a sane, simple interface.

Warning: gopass currently works on Ubuntu & macOS. Please feel free to help with others.

Demo

Features

Please see docs/features.md for an extensive list of all features along with several usage examples.

Feature	pass	gopass	State	Description
Secure secret storage	✔	✔	stable	Securely storing secrets encrypted with GPG
Recipient management	❌	✔	beta	Easily manage multiple users of each store
Multiple stores	❌	✔	beta	Mount multiple stores in your root store, like file systems
password quality assistance	❌	✔	beta	Checks existing or new passwords for common flaws
Binary support	❌	✔	alpha	Special handling of binary files (automatic Base64 encoding)
YAML support	❌	✔	alpha	Special handling for YAML content in secrets
password leak checker	❌	✔	alpha	Perform offline checks against known leaked passwords
PAGER support	❌	✔	stable	Automatically invoke a pager on long output
JSON API	❌	✔	alpha	Allow gopass to be used as a native extension for browser plugins

Installation

If you have Go installed:

go get github.com/justwatchcom/gopass

Otherwise, please see docs/setup.md.

Development

This project uses GitHub Flow. In other words, create feature branches from master, open an PR against master, and rebase onto master if necessary.

We aim for compatibility with the latest stable Go Release only.

Credit & License

gopass is maintained by the nice folks from JustWatch and licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

Maintainers of this repository:

• Matthias Loibl mail@matthiasloibl.com @metalmatze
• Dominik Schulz dominik.schulz@justwatch.com @dominikschulz

Please refer to the Git commit log for a complete list of contributors.

Community

gopass is developed in the open. Here are some of the channels we use to communicate and contribute:

• IRC: #gopass on irc.freenode.net (join via Riot)
• Usage mailing list: gopass-users, for discussions around gopass usage and community support
• Issue tracker: Use the GitHub issue tracker to file bugs and feature requests. If you need support, please send your questions to gopass-user or ask on IRC rather than filing a GitHub issue.

Contributing

We welcome any contributions. Please see the CONTRIBUTING.md file for instructions on how to submit changes. If your are planning on making more elaborate or controversial changes, please discuss them on the gopass-developers mailing list or on IRC before sending a pull request.

Acknowledgements

gopass was initially started by Matthias Loibl and Dominik Schulz. The majority of its development has been sponsored by JustWatch.

Further Documentation

• Security, Known Limitations, and Caveats
• Configuration
• FAQ
• JSON API