[iterm2-discuss] Is there any way to import a lot of passwords to the Password Manager?

[Flare Han]

My company's servers will update the passwords every few months .

Is there any way to import a lot of passwords to the Password Manager?

[KellyC]

Post by Flare Han
Is there any way to import a lot of passwords to the Password Manager?

While googling a similar topic a couple months ago, I found

Save the password in keychain, either by the GUI (see
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/keychain-passwords.html) or:

security add-generic-password -a ${USER} -s LDAPbindPW -w
'<your-password-goes-here>'

The thing I was playing with at the time would have used the above via
something like this in my .bashrc:

LDAP_PW=$(security find-generic-password -a ${USER} -s LDAPbindPW -w)

I also found you can use variations of the security command to list and see
what passwords iTerm2 has created.
From that, you can figure out how to use a security command to
create/update what iTerm2 uses.

security add-generic-password -U -s iTerm2 -T /Applications/iTerm.app -a
'<hostname> <userid>' -w '<userid's password>' -l 'a label'

iTerm2’s password manager shows the account name (the -a switch). So you
don’t really need the -l label. The -l label makes it easier to see in
Keychain Access.

[Flare Han]

That's great! Thank you !