marcopaganini/passhole

A secure hole for your passwords (KeePass CLI)

Passhole

passhole is a commandline password manager for KeePass inspired by pass.

• Manual
• Features
• Setup
• Example Usage
• Example i3wm Keybindings
• Testing and Development

Features

• fill user/pass field in any application via keyboard shortcut
• add, delete, move, edit, rename entries and groups
• generate alphanumeric, symbolic, or correct horse battery staple style passwords
• temporarily cache database password (by default for 10 minutes)
• multiple databases
• supports KeePass v3 and v4 databases
• supports TOTP

See below for examples and the manual (or man passhole) for a complete list of commands and options.

Setup

pip install passhole
ph init

# optionally install zenity for graphical password prompt
sudo apt install zenity

Example Usage

# add a new entry with manually created password
$ ph add github
Username: Evidlo
Password:
Confirm:
URL: github.com

# add an entry with a generated alphanumeric password
$ ph add neopets -a
Username: Evidlo
URL: neopets.com

# add a new group
$ ph add social/

# add an entry to `social/` with a 32 character password (alphanumeric + symbols)
$ ph add social/facebook -s 32
Username: [email protected]
URL: facebook.com

# add an entry to `social/` with a correct-horse-battery-staple type password
$ ph add social/twitter -w
Username: [email protected]
URL: twitter.com

# list all entries
$ ph list
github
neopets
[social]
├── facebook
└── twitter

# display contents of entry
$ ph show social/twitter
Title: twitter
Username: Evidlo
Password: inns.ambien.travelling.throw.force
URL: twitter.com

# retrieve contents of specific field for use in scripts
$ ph show social/twitter --field password
inns.ambien.travelling.throw.force

Example i3wm Keybindings

# select entry using dmenu, then send password to keyboard
bindsym $mod+p exec "ph type --prog dmenu"

# select entry using dmenu, then send username + password to keyboard
bindsym $mod+Shift+p exec "ph type --tabbed --prog dmenu"

Testing and Development

Running tests

# from repo root dir:
python test/tests.py

Isolated install in Docker

# debian
make docker_debian

Building manpage and packaging

make man
make dist

See also

• keepmenu
• kpcli
• keepassxc
• kdbxpasswordpwned

Build Dependencies

Alpine

apk add gcc libffi-dev py3-lxml py3-pip python3-dev libc-dev