#hpass

A Haskell reimplementation of pass.

#Project Goals

Build the Unix password manager pass, but with type safety, unit tests, and other niceties.

#Why?

This is mostly written as an excuse for learning Haskell, although hopefully it will end up being useful. Bash is a perfectly fine language, but with the complexity of pass (700 lines at the time of this writing), it's nice to have the safety offered by implementing it in a compiled language.

Much like hledger and ledger, the eventual goal is to have two compatible implementations while still allowing for differences in taste and non-core features.

#Features

Here's a list of all of the commands listed in pass help, along with the current status in hpass.

• pass init: Not implemented.
• pass ls
  • As in pass, this is the default behavior when no commands are passed.
  • Calling ls with a subfolder lists the files in that directory if it exists, or prints an error message if it does not.
  • Unlike pass, ls must (currently) be explicitly called if passing a subfolder. That is, pass Passwords will list the contents of the directory Passwords, while hpass Passwords will complain about an unrecognized command.
• pass find: Implemented as in pass.
• pass [show]
  • Explicitly calling pass show with a password name shows the decrypted password.
  • Calling pass [password-name] complains about an unrecognized argument instead of showing the decrypted password.
  • The -c/--clip argument is not yet implemented.
• pass grep: Not implemented.
• pass insert: Not implemented.
• pass edit: Not implemented.
• pass generate: Not implemented.
• pass rm: Not implemented.
• pass mv: Not implemented.
• pass cp: Not implemented.
• pass git: Not implemented.
• pass help: Not implemented.
• pass version: Not implemented.

Also, the --qrcode flag is not implemented yet.