Just an update about
sgeps, because
it seems to have made a small stir (which is more than I expected).
- Yes, I know about
emacs foo.gpg. Admittedly I found out while I was “developing”sgeps, but I kept on my track anyway. The real reason was that I was having fun, but I could also mention thatsgepsdoesn't store data unencrypted on disk, not even temporarily. I'm not sure aboutvim foo.gpg. (Update: Joey Hess telle me it does the right thing.) Anyway, I don't want to fire up an editor (or switch to an already opened one) just to get a password. - I had also found out about
pwmantoo. My script started aspwman.plbut it was renamed later. I like the simplicity ofsgepsbetter, especially the lack of any UI besides the CLI, butpwmanis probably good in its own way, but it doesn't fit my usage pattern. - It seems the Gentoo people don't share my qualms about making very
small packages, and apparently
sgepsis now packaged for Gentoo Linux. - Mehdi Dogguy already contributed suggestions (including better
error handling) and even a patch implementing
sgeps --delete. Thanks to him! - An anonymous commenter suggests that
sgepsshould be able to store notes as well as passwords. That wasn't a requirement I initially had, but I won't reject the patch if it comes… He also argues that it should be able to push the password into the X11 paste buffer. Again, why not, if it doesn't break anything.
