The final part of the password puzzle is getting my passwords into my pocket. There are quite a few images in this post (about 2MB) as I describe setting up the system on Android, which involves a lot of steps, with screen-shots.
Hold onto your hat, it's a bit of a fiddle.
Having covered what pass is, why I'm using it, and the required supporting tools gnupg, git, ssh and a private git remote, it's time to go over how to put the system together.
Setting it all up on a Unix computer is fairly straight-forward. Getting it onto an Android is a bit different. So in this post I'll cover how the pieces of the system fit together, and then walk through setting it up on Unix.
Synchronising your local password-store git repository with your remote store is done a bit differently depending if this is the first time you're setting up the remote, or if you already have a remote and you wish to merge it into your new local. I'll cover that too.
I spent some spare hours on the week-end playing with Pass, importing my KeePassX database into password-store and synchronising it to a GitLab private repository.
It's a little tricky to get it set up, with a few moving parts, so I'm still experimenting. Here's what I've figured out so far.