WORKSPACE

All safes are stored in kickpass workspace. Default workspace is $HOME/.kickpass/ .

SAFE NAMING

Safe name can contains any character allowed by the file system containing the kickpass workspace. If safe name contains ‘/’ then corresponding directories will be created under kickpass workspace. For example the following command

kickpass create www/my-personnal-website

will create a safe in $HOME/.kickpass/www/my-personnal-website . While following command

kickpass list www

will list all safe under the directory $HOME/.kickpass/www/ .

kickpass [-hv]

Don't do anything

-v --version

Print kickpass version

-h --help

Print kickpass help

kickpass help [command]

Print general help or command help.

kickpass init [sub]

Initialize a kickpass workspace or a sub-workspace.

kickpass cat [-p] safe

Open safe and print safe metadata to stdout.

-p --password

Print the password to stdout

kickpass create [-gl] safe

Create a new password safe.

-g --generate

Create a new safe with a generated random password

-l --length len

Generate a random password of len length

kickpass open [-t] safe

Open safe and load it in kickpass agent

-t --timeout

Sets the lifetime of the opened safe in the agent. Default in seconds (3600s).

kickpass edit [-pmgl] safe

Prompt for a new password and edit metadata from safe using EDITOR environment variable

-p --password

Edit only password

-m --metadata

Edit only metadata

-g --generate

Create a new safe with a generated random password

-l --length len

Generate a random password of len length

kickpass copy safe

Copy safe password into X primary and secondary clipboards. Password can be pasted only once.

kickpass list [path]

List available safes starting from path relatively to kickpass workspace or from root of kickpass workspace if path is not given.

kickpass delete [-f] safe

Delete safe .

kickpass agent [-d] [command [arg ...]]

Start a kickpass agent that will store your opened safe. Agent can be used by exporting KP_AGENT_SOCK environment variable. Optionnaly starts command with the correct environment set.

-d --version

Do not daemonize agent.