linuxbyexample.org Passwords! – It seems like every web site or service requires you to have a password, and if your being diligent and creating a unique password for each site, then sooner or later you are going to require a process for securely managing all your account details. In today’s screencast, I am going to demonstrate the approach I take, which I hope you’ll find useful. There a several programs available, allowing you to manage your passwords using a nice graphical user interface, but I wanted a command line solution, as ultimately I want to store my master password file on a Linux server, so I can access it from any computer over SSH. Here I have my master password file, which is just a plain text file. If I open the file in a text editor you can see how I structure it’s contents. Basically I have three columns, the first being the web site or service, the second being the username used, the final column is the password for that account. You can see I have two YouTube accounts in here, and it doesn’t matter that these are not stored together in the file, just append new account details to end as you create them. The reason will become apparent when I show you how to lookup a password. OK, now we have our master password file, we need to encrypt it, so that if our computer is stolen or lost, our account details won’t fall into the wrong hands. I use the ccrypt command line utility, which uses the very strong Rijndael encryption algorithm. This utility should …