A simple password manager using the Gnome (maybe also KDE-Wallet) keyring to store the passwords.
Why, how and when:
This idea came to mind the first time I used the keyring in Gnome. And after searching I had yet to find a single password manager that used it as a back-end. But at the time I could only find C examples of using the keyring, and I did not wish to put in all the effort to make a nice GUI C application at the time. Quite some time later I found it was available in python through python-keyring, and this project was started.
Main idea:
This application is designed to be small and lightweight without any clutter. It is primarily designed to keep your everyday (common) passwords and as such there are no grouping or notes or anything other that can clutter up things.
So it (gkpm) sits easily available in the system tray (status icon) or as an appindicator "applet", ready to provide you with passwords!
Also most importantly; it should work on both the command-line and as a GUI application.
Caveats:
- Usernames are not stored encrypted, only passwords.
- Due to the nature of the gnome-keyring ANY application that gains your,
user-rights can access all your passwords. I know it sucks!
- The keyring API does not support deleting of passwords, so they are just blanked.
Project information
- Maintainer:
- GKPM Development Team
- Driver:
- GKPM Development Team
- Licence:
- GNU GPL v3
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- Programming languages:
- python
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