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Re:Lockbox – A stand-alone password manager that works with ... by craftyguy on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:28PM (#16681229)
not gp, but I did the same thing a few years back (well, lastpass->keepass->pass/git) primarily because I was sick of using a proprietary walled garden.

The main benefit of pass, for me, is that it's literally just gpg-encrypted text files. I can access my passwords even if I do not have pass installed, as long as I have my gpg private key. Using git to sync passwords makes it even better!

The android Password Store app (on f-droid) is a great graphical interface to my pass files, including handling git syncs.

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Re:Lockbox – A stand-alone password manager that works with ... by cajdavidson on Monday March 26, 2018 @03:42PM (#16681815)
+1 for the Password Store app, I happen to use an Android tablet and an iPhone and the "Pass" app on iPhone works just as well too (and includes touchID).
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Re:Lockbox – A stand-alone password manager that works with ... by 0xfeba on Monday March 26, 2018 @03:50PM (#16681898)
Why did you move from keepass?
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Re:Lockbox – A stand-alone password manager that works with ... by craftyguy on Monday March 26, 2018 @04:55PM (#16682516)
Two reasons:

1) I didn't like that its approach seemed overly complicated (e.g. its database format, client apps, etc)

2) I was having a really hard time synchronizing passwords, especially if there was a sync conflict. When they happened, the entire database was a 'conflict'. There were also issues I had with the actual sync mechanism, which at the time I had the database on a seafile instance and had to enable various 'hacks' in keepass to get it to play nicely (e.g. file locking, etc).

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