envchain
Environment variables meet macOS Keychain and gnome-keyring <3 (by sorah)
zsh-secrets
Storing GPG encrypted environment variables (by chuwy)
| envchain | zsh-secrets | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 1,139 | 6 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| almost 2 years ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| C | Shell | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
envchain
Posts with mentions or reviews of envchain.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-14.
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How do you protect your secret keys in your local computer?
I use https://github.com/sorah/envchain. It stores your secrets in Keychain (macOS) or gnome-keyring.
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Secretlint 6: masking API tokens in .bash_history and .zsh_history
Credentials are often stored as raw text in .config/ or ~/.aws. These can be found in 1Password Shell Plugins, op run, zenv, envchain, etc. to avoid storing raw tokens in files.
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How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line
You have envchain to store secrets as ENV variables in your keyring and execute commands:
https://github.com/sorah/envchain
Not really something you would use for production web apps, I think envconsul covers that usecase:
https://github.com/hashicorp/envconsul
zsh-secrets
Posts with mentions or reviews of zsh-secrets.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-13.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing envchain and zsh-secrets you can also consider the following projects:
Mosh - Mobile Shell
envconsul - Launch a subprocess with environment variables using data from @HashiCorp Consul and Vault.
gosec - Go security checker
sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
platform-compat - Roslyn analyzer that finds usages of APIs that will throw PlatformNotSupportedException on certain platforms.
dotfiles - Home directory with an absurd amount of tweaks
secretlint - Pluggable linting tool to prevent committing credential.
ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts