Password management tools

Article description::This page is dedicated to secure password generation, auditing of generated passwords for security, and management of existing passwords.

Usage
Apg's default settings do not enforce usage of uppercase letters, numbers or symbols.

Use to following command to generate an extremely secure password:

makepasswd
is a random password generator.

pwgen
is a password generator.

ranpwd
generates random passwords using the in-kernel cryptographically secure random number generator.

Password managers
These passwords are extremely random and difficult to remember, therefore a password manager should be employed.

fpm2
is a GTK password manager utility with password generator.

gorilla
is a Password Safe clone for Linux. It stores passwords in secure way with GUI interface.

KeePass
is a light-weight password management system. KeePass depends on Mono.

KeePassXC
is a fork of KeePassX that aims to incorporate stalled pull requests, features, and bug fixes that have never made it into the main KeePassX repository.

pass
stores, retrieves, generates, and synchronizes passwords securely using, , and.

The password store (or pass) is a simple shell script, which provides commands for conveniently storing passwords in separated PGP encrypted files, temporally copying a password to clipboard, and tracking changes using git. It realizes password management in respect to the Unix philosophy.

There's also a GUI client, a Firefox plugin, and an iOS interface.

For further details visit the project's homepage.

pwsafe
is a command-line password manager compatible with Password Safe.

Revelation
Revelation is a password management system for GNOME. It is also possibly suitable for non GNOME users.

tkpasman
is a useful and reliable personal password manager written in Tcl/Tk.