alt.hn

3/12/2026 at 5:31:47 PM

Scrt: A CLI secret manager for developers, sysadmins and DevOps

 https://github.com/loderunner/scrt

by Olshansky

3/12/2026 at 6:51:45 PM

I thought SOPS with age is what we were doing now. Do we need yet another tooling?

https://github.com/getsops/sops

by moontear

3/12/2026 at 9:51:12 PM

There's also https://github.com/jdx/fnox

by oulipo2

3/15/2026 at 9:00:33 AM

"also" is a strong word for a project this young. It was started in October 2025, does not have any issues (at all) and is completely vibe coded. Not starting a discussion about security & vibe coding now, but I wouldn't blindly recommend such a nascent project if compared to something mature like SOPS.

by moontear

3/15/2026 at 6:11:48 PM

Lol it's the guy who makes mise https://mise.jdx.dev, so I don't think it's a "vibe-coded" project)

by oulipo2

3/15/2026 at 6:20:34 PM

Oh there are vibes; claude & copilot are a contributors on both misa and fnox, gemini even gets in on fnox (poor OpenAI)

by gnabgib

3/12/2026 at 6:55:15 PM

SOPS with Age is simple, and simple is good. I strongly recommend this approach.

by patabyte

3/12/2026 at 7:00:03 PM

SOPS is simple? You are kidding me. Pass from https://www.passwordstore.org/ fame is simple. SOPS is ultra-complicated for a security tool.

by sam_lowry_

3/12/2026 at 7:05:08 PM

I dunno, it seems mostly simple to me.

You have a .sops.yaml with some Age public keys, and then you run “sops secrets.yml” to create an encrypted file.

by sevg

3/12/2026 at 8:56:23 PM

Can you explain what you find complicated about sops? I've used it with ease for the last two years, both personally and professionally.

by jmholla

3/12/2026 at 5:37:28 PM

Looks like every other CLI manager I've ever seen. It says not ready for production use. What's different for this than the others?

by johng

3/13/2026 at 9:22:39 AM

The latest release was June 2022 and the last non dependabot commit was March 2023, until new activity 4 days ago using AI. Why should anyone use this?

by Arrowmaster

3/12/2026 at 10:51:55 PM

I wonder what does the solution do differently than the rest of the CLI managers?

by microheart

3/12/2026 at 6:05:27 PM

Dangerously close to "scrot" which is both an X11 screenshot tool and general slang for a screenshot.

by opan

3/12/2026 at 6:40:11 PM

Ive been working with Linux for 25ish years and have never heard of scrot. I think there's low probability of confusion lol.

by voidfunc

3/16/2026 at 9:21:48 AM

Really? That's surprising. I guess if you mostly used it on servers or if you used default GNOME/KDE you might not run into it. It was the go-to screenshot tool for anyone using openbox, i3, most small WMs. A more universal tool than whatever DE-specific thing GNOME would use. You run it from the CLI, but commonly you'd bind a key to run your one-liner(s) of choice. Commonly used to do crop-style screenshots similar to what macOS binds to cmd-shift-4. Tons of people I know were using it for years. It was somewhat overtaken by maim in later years, and then on Wayland replaced by slurp/grim, but I still call screenshots "scrots" a lot of the time.

by opan

3/12/2026 at 10:41:56 PM

Same. First time hearing about scrot.

by imcritic