[Discuss] Password managers

[Daniel Barrett]

On May 11, 2020, Derek Martin wrote:
>> Dan Barrett wrote:
>>> 1. Store username/password pairs in a tab-delimited text file, one
>>> entry per line, with 3 columns: username, password, and freeform text.
>
>I do the same basic idea but I use one file per password and
>individually encrypt them.

How interesting. I'm curious though: how do you identify the file you
need to obtain a given password? Some sort of file naming scheme? Does
it scale well to 1000+ passwords?

Here's a scenario. I maintain a dozen MediaWiki sites, and each one
includes 1-2 mySQL passwords and several wiki user passwords. How
would you handle this situation with multiple, separately encrypted
password files?  With a single password file, I can decrypt to stdout
and grep for strings.

Thanks,
Dan