When comparing passacre vs LazLock, the Slant community recommends passacre for most people. In the question“What are the best offline password managers?” passacre is ranked 12th while LazLock is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose passacre is:
The utility itself has no GUI, and is written in Python, so it’s portable and has few dependencies.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Lightweight
The utility itself has no GUI, and is written in Python, so it’s portable and has few dependencies.
Pro Requires little to no storage
Passacre needs only a configuration file to tell it how to hash passwords, what kind of output it should produce, and which sites need specific generation rules. There’s no database where passwords are stored, so it’s not possible to be locked out of everything if that file is lost.
Pro Portable
This program can be run from a USB stick, no installation is required.
Pro Anyone can verify the code since the software is open source
LazLock is released under the MIT licence
Cons
Con Requires knowledge of the command line
To use passacre, some knowledge of the command line as well as Python is required.