CLI tool for managing secret keys, tokens, sensitive and/or public key-value pairs. AKA "A glorified note-taking CLI tool with added security and complexity for listing key-value pairs."
Lihim (Filipino word for secret) uses PyNaCl's SecretBox for secret key encryption, and stores the key-value pairs in an SQLite (PostgreSQL coming soon) database. Secret keys are managed according to users and groups. That is, each user has groups and these groups can contain several key-value pairs.
pip install lihim
- Run
lihim initdbto create the database and tables, - Next,
lihim useradd [username]to add your first user. You may read Notes section > Re: Users' key for prompts to expect. - Then,
lihim login [username]to login. - Before you can add key-value pairs, you need a group. Run
lihim groupadd [group name]to create a group. - Now you can add a pair.
lihim pairaddcommand will prompt interactively for key, value, and group. - You just added your first key-val pair! Refer to Commands section below for more commands.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
initdb |
One-off command to create the database and tables. |
users |
Check registered users. |
useradd [username] |
Create a new user with username of ____. |
login [username] |
Login as user with username of ____. |
logout |
Logout current user. |
check |
Check who is currently logged in. |
groups |
Display all the groups of current user. |
group [group name] |
Display all the keys of key-value pairs in the group with name of ____. |
groupadd [group name] |
Add new group with name of ____. |
groupdel [group name] |
Delete group with name of ____ |
pairs |
Display all the keys of available pairs of the current user. |
pair [key] |
Display the key-value pair with key of ____. |
pairadd |
Add a new key-value pair. Will prompt interactively for key, value, and group. |
pairdel [key] [group name] |
Delete pair with key ____ and within group ____. |
As per PyNaCl's documentation:
The 32 bytes key given to
SecretBoxmust be kept secret. It is the combination to your “safe” and anyone with this key will be able to decrypt the data, or encrypt new data.
In Lihim, this "key" is generated when creating a new user. The key's path (where to put it) and name (unique, only you knows) are all up to the user. When creating a user by useradd [username], there will be prompts asking where and what to name the key. This is only for generating the key and the user can (absolutely) rename and/or move the key elsewhere anytime. The key's path and name are not stored in the database.
When logging in, there will be prompts asking where your key is and what is its name. This happens every login [username]. You must give the current key path and key name if you ever moved and/or renamed the key.
The project currently uses sqlite. Postgresql option is on the roadmap. All values of key-value pairs are encrypted using PyNaCl's SecretBox.
The project uses Poetry to package and manage dependencies:
poetry install
Run tests:
pytest
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