When comparing KeychainAccess vs passacre, the Slant community recommends passacre for most people. In the question“What are the best offline password managers?” passacre is ranked 12th while KeychainAccess is ranked 38th. 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.
Cons
Con Requires knowledge of the command line
To use passacre, some knowledge of the command line as well as Python is required.