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I used to use 1Password, but I've switched to pass[0]. I prefer it because it's written for the command line and works really well. Your passwords are encrypted with your GPG key. Check out the man page for usage and examples[1]. (It's available on Fedora via yum and on OS X via brew and there's also an iOS app).

[0]: http://www.zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/

[1]: http://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/about/

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I'm quite stumped why there aren't more good password tools. Pass, vim-gnupg, and SublimeGPG are all I've found. The application managers are atrocious -- not only the UIs but data format interoperability as well. Browser managers are insane.

On another note, the pass documentation recommends a filesystem layout that doesn't remember usernames. I used this scheme before going back to vim:

  www-website-com/id/username
  www-website-com/id/password
  www-website-com/id/other_field

I generally organize stuff like I did in 1Password. So I have stuff like this:

    /logins/<domain>/<username>
    /servers/<hostname>/<username>
    /databases/<type>/<host>/<username>

Then I can do stuff like

    pass /logins/<domain>/<username> | pbcopy

and the password gets copied to my clipboard.

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