Secman — The Password Manager of your dreams

Abdfnabd
2 min readApr 12, 2021

Installation

Secman works on Windows, Linux, and macOS 💻.

Secman Products

secman is a password manager can store, retrieves, generates, and synchronizes passwords, and is written in TypeScript! The most important difference is secman is not GPG cored. Instead, it uses a master password to securely store your passwords. and you can easily manage your passwords from everywhere.

Features

  • Not GPG cored.
  • It uses a master password to securely store your passwords.
  • It syncs your passwords.
  • Easy to use.
  • It is written in TypeScript.
  • You can easily manage your passwords from everywhere, desktop, web, terminal, and more.

Examples

Create a new password

secman new -l✔ Title › Twitter
✔ URL › https://twitter.com
✔ Username › _secman
✔ Password › *********
✔ Extra › no extra
Password created

List passwords

secman .
.
├──Logins
│ └──Twitter
├──Credit Cards
├──Emails
├──Notes
└──Servers

Read It

secman read -l Twitter╭─────────┬─────────────────────┬──────────────────┬───────────┬──────────╮
│ Title │ URL │ Username │ Password │ Extra │
├─────────┼─────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼──────────┤
│ Twitter │ https://twitter.com │ hello@secman.dev │ ••••••••• │ no extra │
╰─────────┴─────────────────────┴──────────────────┴───────────┴──────────╯

show password

secman show -l -p Twitter╭─────────┬─────────────────────┬──────────────────┬───────────┬──────────╮
│ Title │ URL │ Username │ Password │ Extra │
├─────────┼─────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼──────────┤
│ Twitter │ https://twitter.com │ hello@secman.dev │ hitwitter │ no extra │
╰─────────┴─────────────────────┴──────────────────┴───────────┴──────────╯

Edit password field

secman edit -l Twitter? Pick a field › - Use arrow-keys. Return to submit.
❯ Title
URL
Username
Password
Extra

edit multiple fields

secman edit -l -m Twitter? Pick a field ›
? Pick a field ›
Instructions:
↑/↓: Highlight option
←/→/[space]: Toggle selection
a: Toggle all
enter/return: Complete answer
◯ Title
◉ URL
◯ Username
◯ Password
◉ Extra

Installation ⬇

Using npm

npm i -g secman

(Windows): if you get an error you might need to change the execution policy (i.e. enable Powershell) via

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -scope CurrentUser

Using Homebrew (macOS and Linux)

brew tap scmn-dev/secman
brew install secman

Using script (Ubuntu/Debian)

curl -fsSL https://cli.secman.dev | bash

Using SnapCraft

sudo snap install secman

Via Docker

secman cli image

docker run -it smcr/secman-cli

see secman cli docs

secman container image

docker run -it smcr/secman

see secman container docs

Build from source

see building from source doc.

Getting started with secman

Initializing

secman init

Authenticate

secman auth

Insert a New Password

secman insert --[PASSWORD_TYPE]

List Passwords

secman .

Read The Password

secman read --[PASSWORD_TYPE] <PASSWORD_NAME>

Edit Password

secman edit --[PASSWORD_TYPE] <PASSWORD_NAME>

Generate

secman generate

Edit Settings

secman settings

see commands

License

secman is licensed under the terms of MIT License

Some Resources

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Abdfnabd
Abdfnabd

Written by Abdfnabd

someone likes CLI/TUI apps, automation, server-sides, and backend.