I’ve been searching for a decent password manager that works over the console and finally found one (this was awhile back and since then i’ve found many others like yapet, etc):

CPM
Console Password Manager

I really liked the simplicity of CPM and the use of GPG was great. Unfortunately, since the development of CPM has halted, it has not been updated in quite a while. This also means issues with newer libraries and whatnot so it does not compile as easily as before.

I had this error during compilation which drove me nuts since my database was written using CPM so I could not get all my data out. Thankfully someone found out the issue and here is the solution:

http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2009/12/cpm-with-ubuntu-karmic-compilation-issue-solutions/

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CPM with Ubuntu Karmic compilation issue & solutions

In file included from /usr/include/fcntl.h:217,
from cpm.h:35,
from security.c:27:
In function ‘open’,
inlined from ‘initSecurity’ at security.c:498:
/usr/include/bits/fcntl2.h:51: error: call to ‘__open_missing_mode’ declared with attribute error: open with O_CREAT in second argument needs 3 arguments
make: *** [security.o] Error 1

As usual, the above message clearly states the issue with the code — error: open with O_CREAT in second argument needs 3 arguments

Solution is to edit line 498 of security.c and edited the line

canary = open(“/dev/null”, O_CREAT);

to reflect

canary = open(“/dev/null”, O_CREAT, 0666);

I had to edit this file to get cpm working on my local machine with Ubuntu Karmic installed.
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Did this small fix and voila, it finally compiled cleanly and installed just fine. Hope this helps someone…