There's a ton of positivity here, but on the balance there are some significant issues with pass that I think bear mention:
- The fact that it's essentially unstructured data makes it hard to work with generically. If you have a username + password and need to use those in a script, you'll need to implement your own parser in your shell language in every script you need it in.
- `pass generate` to generate new passwords, maybe thanks to the above, replaces everything in the pass value by default. So if you had e.g. a password + secret question answers, if you use `generate` to get a new password it'll wipe out your secret question answers.
- It's very difficult to review history. I stopped using it a while ago, but since everything's encrypted `git diff` won't give you anything useful and IIRC the command line tools were very hard to use for reviewing/restoring passwords when you mess up updates, etc.
- The name makes it nearly impossible to search for
I've been working on something similar... although with slightly larger scope (intended to be used within containers/sandboxes) https://github.com/andrewbaxter/passworth
- The fact that it's essentially unstructured data makes it hard to work with generically. If you have a username + password and need to use those in a script, you'll need to implement your own parser in your shell language in every script you need it in.
- `pass generate` to generate new passwords, maybe thanks to the above, replaces everything in the pass value by default. So if you had e.g. a password + secret question answers, if you use `generate` to get a new password it'll wipe out your secret question answers.
- It's very difficult to review history. I stopped using it a while ago, but since everything's encrypted `git diff` won't give you anything useful and IIRC the command line tools were very hard to use for reviewing/restoring passwords when you mess up updates, etc.
- The name makes it nearly impossible to search for
I've been working on something similar... although with slightly larger scope (intended to be used within containers/sandboxes) https://github.com/andrewbaxter/passworth