passage

passage is a fork of password-store (https://www.passwordstore.org) that uses age (https://age-encryption.org) as a backend instead of GnuPG.

Differences from pass

The password store is at $HOME/.passage/store by default.

For decryption, the age identities at $HOME/.passage/identities are used with the -i age CLI option.

For encryption, the nearest .age-recipients file (that is, the one in the same directory as the secret, or in the closest parent) is used with the -R age CLI option. If no .age-recipients files are found, the identities file is used with the -i option.

Extensions are searched at $HOME/.passage/extensions. password-store extensions that wish to be compatible with passage can switch on the PASSAGE variable.

The init command is not currently available, and moving or copying a secret always re-encrypts it.

Example: simple set up

In this setup, the key is simply saved on disk, which can be useful if the password store is synced to a location less trusted than the local disk.

age-keygen >> $HOME/.passage/identities

Example: set up with a password-protected key

This setup allows using the identity file password as the primary password to unlock the store.

KEY="$(age-keygen)"
echo "$KEY" | age -p -a >> $HOME/.passage/identities
echo "$KEY" | age-keygen -y >> $HOME/.passage/store/.age-recipients

Example: set up with age-plugin-yubikey

This setup requires age v1.1.0, or rage (https://github.com/str4d/rage), and the PIV plugin age-plugin-yubikey (https://github.com/str4d/age-plugin-yubikey).

It's recommended to add more YubiKeys and/or age keys to the .age-recipients file as recovery options, in case this YubiKey is lost.

age-plugin-yubikey # run interactive setup
age-plugin-yubikey --identity >> $HOME/.passage/identities
age-plugin-yubikey --list >> $HOME/.passage/store/.age-recipients

Integrating with fzf

The following script can be invoked with any (or no) passage flags, and spawns a fuzzy search dialog using fzf (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) for selecting the secret.

#! /usr/bin/env bash
set -eou pipefail
PREFIX="${PASSAGE_DIR:-$HOME/.passage/store}"
FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS=""
name="$(find "$PREFIX" -type f -name '*.age' | \
  sed -e "s|$PREFIX/||" -e 's|\.age$||' | \
  fzf --height 40% --reverse --no-multi)"
passage "${@}" "$name"

Migrating from pass

#! /usr/bin/env bash
set -eou pipefail
cd "${PASSWORD_STORE_DIR:-$HOME/.password-store}"
while read -r -d "" passfile; do
  name="${passfile#./}"; name="${name%.gpg}"
  [[ -f "${PASSAGE_DIR:-$HOME/.passage/store}/$name.age" ]] && continue
  pass "$name" | passage insert -m "$name" || { passage rm "$name"; break; }
done < <(find . -path '*/.git' -prune -o -iname '*.gpg' -print0)

Environment variables

PASSAGE_DIR Password store location

PASSAGE_IDENTITIES_FILE Identities file location

PASSAGE_AGE age binary (tested with age and rage)

PASSAGE_RECIPIENTS_FILE Override recipients for encryption operations Passed to age with -R

PASSAGE_RECIPIENTS Override recipients for encryption operations Space separated, each passed to age with -r

All other environment variables from password-store are respected, such as PASSWORD_STORE_CLIP_TIME and PASSWORD_STORE_GENERATED_LENGTH.