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Installation and configuration for password store

Before start:

  • Create a new private GitHub repository for the password store
  • Generate ssh key pair to use with GitHub if you haven't already
    ssh-keygen -t ed25519

Prerequisite for MacOS (skip this for Linux):

  1. Install homebrew (a prerequisite to be able to install the standard unix password manager. Homebrew can be installed via a curl command here: https://brew.sh. Installation takes a couple (5?) minutes

In WSL (Ubuntu 18.04) git shows unwanted unstaged changes sometimes. If you perform git diff on the files, you can see that only file permissions have changed, e.g:

old mode 100755  
new mode 100644

Fix:
Add these lines to /etc/wsl.conf: