Stuff I learned today - Questions on SSH/GPG

[Whovianime]

• pass password manager thingy, i am confused about this
• SSH keys? I think I understand but at the same time, my head hurts lol
• PGP and GPG are different stuff

 

[McCloud]

3. pass password manager thingy, i am confused about this

You need to set it up with "pass init <gpg key>" where gpg key is an existing key. You can get a list of available keys with "gpg --list-secret-keys".

Once you've done this it's as simple as creating a new password entry with "pass insert <entry name>", entry name can be anything.

Then you retrieve your password with "pass <entry name>". To list possible entries use "pass" by itself.

 

[McCloud]

Whovianime asked a question about gpg. Here is the answer. If you run "gpg -k" you get a list of keys. On my setup it looks like this:

pub ed25519 2025-11-29 [SC] [expires: 2028-11-29]
5B8D606F556F8F4BA968AB5E0345A316BEFDC2C2
uid [ultimate] default <[email protected]>
sub cv25519 2025-11-29 [E] [expires: 2028-11-29]
DBE2A87F2728C1C7CB2E57CC107CCCCDCF1511E5

As you can see, I have put the name of my key in bold. It is right next to the email I used to generate the key.

So on my system, to setup pass, I would use "pass init default".

 

[CaffeineAddict]

gpg usage is good topic for a new tutorial, I may start one at some point if nobody does, for now here is how to list gpg keys in gpg-agent (if you created and added them):

gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG

 

[wizardfromoz]

Threads merged

Wizard