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init

Creates a new vault file and the master password that opens it.

Usage

Section titled “Usage”
Terminal window
sefy --vault ~/backups/notes.bak init
Terminal window
$ sefy init
New master password:
Repeat it:
created /home/you/backups/notes.bak

The password is asked for twice, because a typo here would lock you out of an empty vault forever — there is no recovery path, no hint and no second key.

init refuses to touch a path that already exists, rather than offering to overwrite it. Overwriting a vault destroys every secret in it and cannot be undone, so that is not a confirmation prompt worth having.

Choosing a name

Section titled “Choosing a name”

The name is yours. notes.bak, archive-2019.dat, anything at all — there is no extension sefy expects and none it writes. The file itself carries no header and no magic bytes, so nothing but the name suggests what it is.

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