If you are looking for simple password management in Unix, pass maybe the answer. It utilizes GPG to encrypt the stored passwords. It stores the encrypted passwords as text files in a tree of directories. Each directory can maintain a separate GPG key for encrypting the passwords stored inside it. How easy is it? The following command shows how we can store a password and set AWS/access-key-id as the variable name to access it in the future. pass insert AWS/access-key-id The previous command will automatically create a directory named AWS inside the ~/.password-store directory which is the default location of pass storage. It also creates a file named access-key-id.gpg inside the ~/.password-store/AWS directory. To access the value we can call the following command. pass AWS/access-key-id There are some steps we need to run for utilizing the tool. Install pass using package manager Create a GPG key pair record Initialize the pass storage with the spe