Password Manager Utility

Description

This project is aimed at providing a tool for safe password storage and generation. The tool supports both command line interface and GUI mode.

Command line usage

Help

For checking all the command line arguments check help message using:

python3 password_manager.py --help

usage: password_manager_cmd.py [-h] [-g] [-l NUMBER] [--alpha]
                               [--alpha-decimal] [--all] [-e] [-d] [-k KEY]
                               [-kf FILE] [-t TEXT] [-f FILE] [-o FILE]

Password manager is a command line utility for managing passwords

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -g, --gen             generate a new password
  -l NUMBER, --length NUMBER
                        specify length of password to be generated
  --alpha               generate passwords using only alphabets
  --alpha-decimal       generate passwords using only alpha numerals
  --all                 generate passwords using alphanumerical and special
                        characters
  -e, --enc             encrypt a file
  -d, --dec             decrypt a file
  -k KEY, --key KEY     key to be used for encryption/decryption
  -kf FILE, --key-file FILE
                        use key from FILE for encryption/decryption
  -t TEXT, --text TEXT  text to encrypt/decrypt
  -f FILE, --file FILE  file to encrypt/decrypt
  -o FILE, --out FILE   output file to store decrypted/encrypted file

Generating password

For generating new password

python3 password_manager.py -g

For generating new password of length 12 using alphabets and numerals

python3 password_manager_cmd.py -g --length 12 --alpha-decimal

For generating new password of length 12 using alphabets, decimals and special characters

python3 password_manager_cmd.py -g --length 12 --all

Encrypting

For encrypting text without a key

python3 password_manager_cmd.py -e -t "some_text_here"

For encrypting text with a key

python3 password_manager_cmd.py -e -k "some_key" -t "some_text"

For encrypting text with a key located inside a file

python3 password_manager_cmd.py -e -kf "path_to_key_file" -t "some_text"

For encrypting a file with a key located inside a file with output to a user defined file

python3 password_manager_cmd.py -e -kf "path_to_key_file" -f "path_to_file_to_encrypt" -o "path_for_encrypted_file_output"