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weezee··on Ask HN: GitHub and Bitbucket end support for password auth for CLI - Now what?
> You know it's wrong

not quite wrong. Maybe not the most secure way. It worked and saved my life when password need to be changed, needed to get a more secure pattern, got lost and so on.

> Do you think that asking questions here will have an effect on how you see your current workflow?

Hmmm. Good feedback. My workflow gets disturbed by Github and Bitbucket, so I have to change it. I just try to learn from the community how to handle this requirements. Every developer has to find a way to handle secrets and it is not universally solved yet what is the best way. And additionally it changes from time to time.

weezee··on Ask HN: GitHub and Bitbucket end support for password auth for CLI - Now what?
> I read a tweet recently along the lines of > "Do you have 30 years experience, or have you > just done the same year 30 times?"

Good point. I mean, this crude offline Excel solution has simply survived many system migrations, different operating systems (including Win95->...->Win11), employer directives, password restrictions, and so on.

Your "use one public key which I securely synchronize between machines" approach seems feasible, thank you for this idea!