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If you don't already use it, you should check out GNU Stow as a tool to manage those symlinks. You just make a directory (or directories) which mirrors your home folder, but with only the files you want to store in dropbox, and Stow will generate symlinks in the appropriate places.

https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/

Just put your passwords in a separate `.environment` file and source it in your main file. Make sure the `.environment` file is in `.gitignore` (although there should be no reason to put it in your repo to begin with).

source $HOME/.environment

Done.

Mackup is a good tool for this -https://github.com/lra/mackup/blob/master/README.md

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