vim -x as a password manager
Need a command line password manager?
vim -x ~/.passwordsLearned this from a comment on this blog post:
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/06/11/vim-the-ultimate-command-line-password-manager/
The post originally proposed using vim in combination with a pgp plugin, but someone in the comments mentioned that vim has builtin encryption capabilities with -x
Written by Hasen el Judy
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By default Vim uses cryptmethod=zip which is not really secure. If you actually want to use Vim as your password manager, this is an essential setting in your .vimrc:
set cryptmethod=blowfish
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