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Good shout, I've added it to the 'Similar Projects' section of the readme.

I had a play with 'pass' before but i wasn't keen on the way it splits the entries up into separate files which was one of the drivers for putting passbox together.

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Is there a way to share passwords with passbox? pass lets you encrypt different files with different keys so it could potentially be used within an organization with varying levels of permission. Another advantage is that each password is just an encrypted file that could be read with just GPG if pass isn't installed.

Not really, i wanted this to just be a personal password manager and sharing passwords is mostly out of scope in that respect. Although there's nothing stopping you having multiple 'passbox.gpg' files of different names with different keys by manipulating the PASSBOX_LOCATION env variable within aliases or something like that.

You can still decrypt the file with just GPG if you wanted and modify the file in plain text. Passbox just acts as a layer on top of that to interrogate the encrypted GPG file.

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