Rooster is a simple password manager. It helps you save username/password combinations through a friendly command-line interface. Rooster runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

Rooster is made available free of charge. You can support its development through Liberapay 💪

Rooster has the following goals:

• it is easy to maintain so that it never becomes unmaintained, it has existed since 2015;
• it works completely offline by saving your password in a single local file;
• it stores username/password combinations, nothing more, nothing less;
• it can import/export passwords from and to 1Password/JSON/CSV;
• it can run on a wide range of operating systems.

Rooster protects your passwords with state-of-the-art cryptography algorithms:

• scrypt for key derivation (n = 2^12, r = 8, p = 1 by default, customizable)
• aes-256-cbc for encryption
• hmac-sha512 for authentication

To install Rooster, run the following commands as root.

On Arch Linux, install Rooster from AUR.

On Void Linux, install Rooster from XBPS.

On Fedora and CentOS:

dnf update -y
dnf install -y curl gcc unzip pkgconfig libX11-devel libXmu-devel python3
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh -s -- -y
source $HOME/.cargo/env
cargo install --all-features --root /usr rooster

On Debian:

apt-get update -y
apt-get install -y curl gcc unzip pkg-config libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libx11-dev libxmu-dev python3 libssl-dev xsel
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh -s -- -y
source $HOME/.cargo/env
cargo install --all-features --root /usr rooster

On Ubuntu 16.04/18.04:

apt update -y
apt install -y curl unzip pkg-config libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libx11-dev libxmu-dev python3 libssl-dev xsel
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh -s -- -y
source $HOME/.cargo/env
cargo install --all-features --root /usr rooster

On MacOS:

brew install curl
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh -s -- -y
cargo install --all-features rooster

On Windows, install Rust and then run:

cargo install --all-features rooster

If you use Wayland instead of X11, install wl-clipboard and make sure you have the following environment variable set: XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland.

For other distributions, the various Docker files can help you find which dependencies you need.

Once you have installed Rooster, create a new password file:

rooster init

Once setup is finished, see rooster --help for what you can do.

The source code is released under the Apache 2.0 license.