Introduction

turtle-cpm is a command line tool to manage passwords, a replacement of the now gone cpm project.

The latest version is v24.8, released on 2024-08-01. See the release notes.

Notable features:

  • Simple database format: encrypted SQLite (via gpg), tracking machines, services, users and passwords
  • Supports plain passwords and also Time-based one-time password (TOTP) shared secrets, calculating the actual TOTP code
  • Can import the original cpm's XML database
  • A little bit better than trivial search: you can search for e.g. ldap or mybank without telling if you are searching for a service type or machine name

Naturally it lacks telemetry, unlike e.g. 1Password.

Website

Check out the project's website for a list of features and installation and usage information.

Platforms

cpm has been used on Linux, but nothing was done intentionally to prevent it from working on e.g. macOS or Windows.

The important bits of the code

  • The entry point is the Main() function in commands/root.go.

  • The test code lives under commands/*_test.go.

  • The documentation is undeer guide/.

The turtle

The turtle-cpm codebase is independent from the original cpm. It's turtle because this project is not in C, so might be a little bit slower (though not significantly in practice).

License

Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.