From 3e48337c7fcb4c1cbb7f54a14858147dbcf0f89e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Buetow Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:27:29 +0100 Subject: quick commit --- pwgrep.buetow.org/content/Tutorials.sub/10.Passwords.xml | 3 ++- pwgrep.buetow.org/content/home.xml | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'pwgrep.buetow.org/content') diff --git a/pwgrep.buetow.org/content/Tutorials.sub/10.Passwords.xml b/pwgrep.buetow.org/content/Tutorials.sub/10.Passwords.xml index 6834510..456b4f7 100644 --- a/pwgrep.buetow.org/content/Tutorials.sub/10.Passwords.xml +++ b/pwgrep.buetow.org/content/Tutorials.sub/10.Passwords.xml @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ Tutorial for storing passwords - First check out pwgrep from svn and edit the configuration parameters in its header. Also setup a versioning repository (e.g. svn) for your password database storage (preferable using some encryption for checkout/update operations such as SSL or SSH). Afterwards you may go on with the usage of pwgrep itself: + First check out pwgrep from git and edit the configuration parameters in its header. Also setup a versioning repository (e.g. svn) for your password database storage (preferable using some encryption for checkout/update operations such as SSL or SSH). Afterwards you may go on with the usage of pwgrep itself: + Please note that the current version of pwgrep is configured to work with git. The rest of this tutorial however should work as with svn. The database file is divided in several records. Each record begins with its name followed by several lines holding all the secret informations. The (actually very simple) format of the database file is as follows: some record name here diff --git a/pwgrep.buetow.org/content/home.xml b/pwgrep.buetow.org/content/home.xml index 68399f1..b688b81 100644 --- a/pwgrep.buetow.org/content/home.xml +++ b/pwgrep.buetow.org/content/home.xml @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Encryption of all the passwords. Versioning of all the passwords. No loss of old passwords. Since a versioning system is used, the password database can be used on several hosts at once (automatic synchronization). Even several user can share the same password database. The versioning system will keep track of who was changing which entries and at which time. - The versioning system to use can be configured (Subversion by default) + The versioning system to use can be configured (Git by default) Besides of passwords, pwgrep can also be used for storing a collection of files like certificates The file shredding command for secure deleting of temporary files can be configured (shred on Linux and destroy or rm -P on FreeBSD by default) Automatic local backup of all database changes (Still access to old data after editing the password database and the network connection to the versioning system is not accessible) -- cgit v1.2.3