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pwman - password management program

PWman is a text-based application based on the ui design of abook addressbook. PWman works on Linux, *BSD, Solaris and should also run on most other UNIXes(untested). It Needs libxml2 and ncurses.
More details on pwman, its compilation and its use may be found in the Readme.

In addition to the latest version, users may be interested in pwman 3, a complete re-write of pwman in python.

News

2007-08-28 - pwman 0.3.8 released
- Support for re-ordering the contents of lists, by using [ and ] to move entries and list about
2007-07-31 - pwman 0.3.7 released
- Improved handling of new files, and when you cancel the gnupg passphrase input / key not found
2007-03-01 - pwman 0.3.6 released
- Fixes for new password lists
2007-01-16 - pwman 0.3.5 released
- Exports can now be encrypted for multiple recipients
- On-screen alert when a filter is active
- Improved help and documentation
2006-02-14 - pwman 0.3.4 released
- Read only option
- Proper xml escaping, so entries can contain &
2002-10-14 - pwman 0.3.2 released
- Changes to string handling functions
2002-10-8 - pwman 0.3.1 released
- Fixed Segfault in startup
2002-8-23 - pwman 0.3.0 released
- Switched back from gpgme to gpg
- Added Sublists
- New file format. Use convert_pwdb to convert old database
- Added program to convert database to csv files, pwdb2csv
- See ChangeLog for more details
2002-5-1 - pwman 0.2.1 released
- Fixed launch on filters
- Fixed current item on filters
- Added file write after password add
- Reenable file locking
2002-4-14 - pwman 0.2.0 released
- Added search/filtering function
- Switched from using gpg to gpgme
- Added password generator
- Rewrote most of password file I/O
- Added Import/Export functions
- Got rid of incessant blinking/flashing on scroll
- Shadowed passphrase and timeout improvements
2002-4-6 - pwman 0.1.2 - added support for other unix systems, switched from libxml to libxml2 and added a few changes. See ChangeLog.
2002-3-30 - pwman 0.1.1 - minor bug fixes, error handling and code clean up
2002-3-27 - pwman 0.1.0 released

Requirements

Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris (other UNIXes may work also but they are untested)
ncurses - terminal handling library(other versions of curses probably won't work)
libxml2 - xml handling library
GnuPG - GNU Privacy Guard (encryption application)

Screenshots


Edit Screen	Main Screen	Help Screen

Download

Notice: These are not direct links to the files. You will be offered a mirror to download from when you click below.

Latest Version is 0.3.8
- pwman-0.3.8.tar.gz
Older releases available here.
Source can also be obtained through CVS.