sala 1.2

Basic usage

Passwords are stored in a directory hierarchy, each file containing one secret.

Commands:

sala init

Initialize a password store

sala get FILE...

Read secret(s)

sala set FILE...

Create or modify secret(s)

sala FILE...

Read or modify, depending on whether the first file exists or not

For more information, see sala(1) and http://www.digip.org/sala/.

Installation

Install sala by invoking:

pip install sala

To install from source, invoke:

python setup.py install

Requirements:

• Python 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2 (or newer 3.x).

• GnuPG

Suggested packages:

• pwgen: With the default configuration, if pwgen is installed, it’s used to suggest good passwords to the user

Development

The test suite is in the test/ directory. Use the run-tests.py script to run the test suite. For more info, invoke:

python run-tests.py --help

cram 0.5 or newer is required to run the tests. If coverage is installed, the script can also show test coverage.

There documentation in the doc/ directory. To build the documentation source to a regular manpage and a HTML manpage, invoke

make -C doc

in the top directory. Docutils 0.8 or newer is required.

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