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---
title: A Tool to Manage a Set of YAML Objects Representing Account Information — pwutil
published: 2015-04-07
---
A long time ago I wrote a bunch of scripts (first in bash, then zsh, and later perl) to manage a, sometimes encrypted, file containing account information I get asked to create and remember on a daily basis—accounts for shopping websites spring to mind.
[pwutil](https://git.yggdrasil.li/pwutil) is the newest iteration in this line of bunches of scripts.
## Features
* Support for embedding common operation in any kind of record keeping
Thus support for almost any encryption known to man (with absolutely no online security), version control, and synchronisation
* [Human read- and writeable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML) backstore
* Machine parseable output
* [Command Line Interface](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface)-only
* New accounts can be partially generated by user defined functions with out of the box support for [pwgen](http://sourceforge.net/projects/pwgen/) and SSH
## Usage
~~~
pwget [<searchTerm> …]
Looks up and returns all accounts which contain any <searchTerm> anywhere in their representation — case insensitive.
pwadd [[--gen-<generator> [<generatorArgument> …] …] --] <identifier> [<attributeKey> <attributeValue> …]
Adds an account to the store — does not overwrite.
~~~
## Documentation
I shall document the project in a partial and file-wise fashion—amendments available on request.
### Structure
~~~ {#DirTree}
pwutil
├── default.nix
├── PWAdd.hs
├── PWGet.hs
├── PWUtil
│ ├── Extra
│ │ ├── PWGen.hs
│ │ └── SSHCmd.hs
│ ├── Types.hs
│ └── Util.hs
├── pwutil.hs
├── PWUtil.hs
└── pwutil.nix
~~~
### `pwutil.nix`
is a [nix](https://nixos.org/nix) expression allowing easy installation using the nix package manager.
A `~/.nixpkgs/config.nix` allowing one to do so might look thus:
~~~
{
packageOverrides = pkgs: {
pwutil = pkgs.callPackage /path/to/pwutil.nix {};
};
}
~~~
The derivation takes some arguments (write those in `{}` above):
`main ? null`
~ Overwrite `pwutil.hs` with a file path
`with<Package> ? false`
~ `<Package>` is one of Pwgen, or Ssh a the current time.
If `true` wraps executables to have `$PATH` include `<Package>`.
### `Types.hs`
Introducing `PW` (much as [xmonad](https://xmonad.org) did with `X`) is an easy way to keep track of the `PWConfig` without resorting to function arguments.
`BackStore` is our (new and improved) way of encapsulating store access in a totally customisable way—`plain`, which is essential `readFile` and `writeFile` as provided by `ByteString`, is provided for convenience in `Util.hs`.
`PWConfig` most importantly contains a definition of generators (called by passing `--gen-…` to `pwadd`).
~~~ {#Types.hs .haskell}
module PWUtil.Types (
PW(..),
BackStore(..),
PWConfig(..),
Generator(..)
) where
import Control.Monad.State
import qualified Data.Map as M
import Data.Yaml
import Data.ByteString
type PW = StateT PWConfig IO
data BackStore = BackStore
{ readContents :: PW ByteString
, writeContents :: ByteString -> PW ()
}
data PWConfig = PWConfig
{ generators :: M.Map String Generator
, backstore :: BackStore
}
type Generator = [String] -> PW Value
~~~
### `pwutil.hs`
is, in a [xmonad](http://xmonad.org) kind of way, the configuration file—the shipped default is reproduced below as a template for custom configs.
~~~ {#pwutil.hs .haskell}
import PWUtil
import System.FilePath ((</>))
import System.Directory (getHomeDirectory)
main :: IO ()
main = do
h <- getHomeDirectory
runPW (emptyConfig { backstore = plain (h </> "accounts.yaml") }) pwutil
~~~
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