--- title: I Turned My Terminal Into a Password Manager | daily.dev description: A walkthrough of using Pass, the Unix-philosophy CLI password manager created by WireGuard's Jason Donenfeld, as a full secrets manager. Covers GPG key... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-turned-my-terminal-into-a-password-manager-9ojh0wwca twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I Turned My Terminal Into a Password Manager | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of using Pass, the Unix-philosophy CLI password manager created by WireGuard's Jason Donenfeld, as a full secrets manager. Covers GPG key... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-turned-my-terminal-into-a-password-manager-9ojh0wwca og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9OJH0wwCa.png og:image:alt: I Turned My Terminal Into a Password Manager og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I Turned My Terminal Into a Password Manager **[DevOps Toolbox](https://daily.dev/sources/devopstoolbox)** · 13 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of using Pass, the Unix-philosophy CLI password manager created by WireGuard's Jason Donenfeld, as a full secrets manager. Covers GPG key generation, encrypting and decrypting secrets, Pass's core commands (insert, generate, find, delete, git integration), multi-line secrets, clipboard auto-clear, and extensions for OTP and migration from services like 1Password and LastPass. Also demonstrates using Raycast as a GUI frontend, syncing to mobile via a private GitHub repo, and configuring per-repo secret stores with direnv/mise for safe local development and AI agent access. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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