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CPM is the Console Password Management tool, which allows you to securely store passwords and other key=value pairs in an encrypted XML tree. A single CPM database can be securely used by several people at the same time, see multiuser CPM. CPM passwords can be revision controlled, see revision control.

CPM is adopted here since I've fixed some minor issues of bit rot.

Install from package

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64bit users: install the _debian_ package cpm_0.25~beta-2debian3_amd64.deb See the downloads section for Debian packages at http://github.com/comotion/cpm/downloads

Quick Start

You need: a GPG key and 3 minutes of your time. Create the password database (only once):

me@mine:$ create-cpmdb

Use your GPG key to encrypt the database. This puts a .cpmdb file in your home folder.

Run CPM and add your passwords! Exit by hitting ESC to save the keys.

me@mine:$ cpm

For more info read http://kacper.blog.linpro.no/archives/135

Doing it by hand

Build dependencies apt-get install libcdk5 libcdk5-dev cracklib-runtime cracklib2 cracklib2-dev libdotconf1.0 libdotconf-dev libgpgme11 libgpgme11-dev libncurses5 libncurses5-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev gettext

Build with: ./configure --with-crack-dict=/var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict make

Run with: chown root:root cpm chmod +s cpm ./cpm

Install with: make install

Set up your password db:

if you don't have one already

cp conf/cpmrc-default ~/.cpmrc cd share/cpm ./import.sh general passwordsafe/example.txt cp -i cpm_convert.db ~/.cpmdb

And you are ready to go!