PassMen command line password manager

Installing

To install passmen run: npm install -g passmen

Help

To output the generic help you can run passmen help. Want a help output for a specific command? Just run passmen <command> --help, where <command> is the command you want to see the help for.

Usage

First time

When running passmen for the first time it will prompt you for your name and a new master password, this master password will be used for encrypting/decrypting the passwords so you need to remember that well.

Getting a password

If you've already initialized passmen you can just run passmen to get a list of your stored passwords. Select one and enter your master password to decrypt and copy the password.

You can also run: passmen list

Storing a password

To store a password run: passmen add this will prompt you for your master password, after entering you can enter the name of the service and the password you want to store.

Storing a random password

There are two methods to store a random password.

Generating a separate password Run passmen random to create a random password and have it copied to your clipboard or displayed on screen. After that use passmen add to store the password you copied.

Generating a password through add Run passmen add --random to generate a new random password and immediately add it to passmen.

Random password size You can use the flag --size=X to set the size of the random password, for example: passmen random --random=15

Removing a password

To remove a password run: passmen remove, this will prompt you for your master password. If your master password is correct you can select the password you want to remove. After selection the password is removed from your list.

Examples

# Add a new password
passmen add

# Add a random password
passmen add --random

# Add a random 15 character sized password
passmen add --random --size=15

# Generate a random password
passmen random

# Generate a random 15 character sized password
passmen random --size=15

# Remove a password
passmen remove