go-passbolt-cli

A CLI tool to interact with Passbolt, an Open source Password Manager for teams.

If you want to do something more complicated: this Go Module to Interact with Passbolt from Go might intrest you.

Disclaimer: This project is community driven and not associated with Passbolt SA

Install

Via Repository (Prefered):

Use the package from your Distros Official Repository

Via Package:

Download the deb/rpm Package for your Distro and architecture from the Latest Release.
Install via your Distros Package manager like `dpkg -i`

Via Homebrew

brew install passbolt/tap/go-passbolt-cli

Via Archive:

Download and Extract the Archive for your OS and architecture from the Latest Release.

Note: tab completion and manpages will need to be installed manually.

Via Go:

go install github.com/passbolt/go-passbolt-cli@latest

Note: this will install the binary as go-passbolt-cli, also tab completion and manpages will be missing.

Getting Started

First you need to Setup basic information: the Server Address, your Private Key and your Password. You have these options:

• Save it in the config file using

passbolt configure --serverAddress https://passbolt.example.org --userPassword '1234' --userPrivateKeyFile 'keys/privatekey.asc' 

or

passbolt configure --serverAddress https://passbolt.example.org --userPassword '1234' --userPrivateKey '-----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----' 

• Setup Environment Variables
• Provide the Flags manually every time

Notes:

• You can set the Private Key using the flags --userPrivateKey or --userPrivateKeyFile where --userPrivateKey takes the actual private key and --userPrivateKeyFile loads the content of a file as the PrivateKey, --userPrivateKeyFile overwrites the value of --userPrivateKey.
• You can also just store the serverAddress and your Private Key, if your Password is not set it will prompt you for it every time.
• Passwordless PrivateKeys are unsupported
• MFA settings can also be save permanently this ways

Usage

Generally the Structure of Commands is like this:

passbolt action entity [arguments]

Action is the Action you want to perform like Creating, Updating or Deleting an Entity. Entity is a Resource(Password), Folder, User or Group that you want to apply an action to.

In Passbolt a Password is usually revert to as a Resource.

To Create a Resource you can do this, it will return the ID of the newly created Resource:

passbolt create resource --name "Test Resource" --password "Strong Password"

You can then list all users:

passbolt list user

Note: you can adjust which columns should be listed using the flag --column or its short from -c, if you want multiple column then you need to specify this flag multiple times.

For sharing we will need to know how we want to share, for that there are these Permission Types:

Code	Meaning
1	"Read-only"
7	"Can update"
15	"Owner"
-1	Delete existing permission

Now that we have a Resource ID, know the ID's of other Users and about know about Permission Types, we can share the Resource with them:

passbolt share resource --id id_of_resource_to_share --type type_of_permission --user id_of_user_to_share_with

Note: you can supply the the users argument multiple times to share with multiple users

For sharing with groups the --group argument exists.

MFA

You can setup MFA also using the configuration sub command, only TOTP is supported, there are multiple modes for MFA: none, interactive-totp and noninteractive-totp.

Mode	Description
none	just errors if challenged for MFA.
interactive-totp	prompts for interactive entry of TOTP Codes.
noninteractive-totp	automatically generates TOTP Codes when challenged, it requires the mfaTotpToken flag to be set to your totp Secret, you can configure the behavior using the mfaDelay, mfaRetrys and mfaTotpOffset flags

Server Verification

To enable Server Verification you need to run passbolt verify once, after that the server will always be verified if the same config is used

Scripting

For Scripting we have a -j or --json flag to convert the Output for the create, get and list commands to JSON for easier Parsing in Scripts.

Note: The JSON Output does not cover Error Messages, you can detect Errors by checking if the Exitcode is not 0

Documentation

Usage for all Subcommands is here. And is also available via man passbolt