Rooster

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 💪

Features

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

Installation

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.

Usage

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

rooster init

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

License

The source code is released under the Apache 2.0 license.