plan-pw project

Password manager for macOS.

Follow these steps to build some easy command line commands for the management of your password

Edit configuration files

Open and edit the file setting.json adding:

1. in pathFile the path (and the file name) where you want to save your password. For example

/Users/user123/Documents/encrypted_pw.txt

1. in tmp_file_path the path (and the file name) where you want to temporary save the crafted password. For example

/Users/user123/Documents/tmp.txt

Be careful, the document names MUST be different

Launch python script

1. Clone the repository in your laptop

2. Move to the project directory typing in your terminal: cd <project_path>

3. Install the project dependencies typing in your terminal: pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Test the python script typing in your terminal: python3 planpw.py -h

If the script works, you will see the manual of the script in your terminal something like this:

usage: python3 planpw.py [options] <flags>
    [options]:
        -get [tag]                      : get the password saved with [value] tag
        -set [tag]                      : add a new password with the tag [value]
        -find [string]                  : show all the tags matching with [string]
        -craft <flags>                  : craft a new password
            <-s>            -> allow special characters
            <-l> [lenght]   -> set password lenght
        -del [tag]                      : delete an existing password
        -h                              : show this manual

2. Create command line commands

Every following actions must be executed on these files:

• getpw
• setpw
• craftpw
• delpw
• findpw

2.1 Modify the files

Open every file and substitute project_path_here with you project file path

2.2 Copy the files

Copy every file to the folder /usr/local/bin/.

You can access to this folder by typing in your terminal
open /usr/local/bin/

2.2 Make the file executable

To be able to use the commands, type in your terminal:

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/getpw

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/setpw

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/craftpw

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/delpw

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/findpw

3. Enjoy your new commands

Open a terminal and use the commands.