Simple & Secure Password Sharing with Auto-Expiration of Shared Items

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Give your users the tools to be secure by default.

Password Pusher is an open source application to communicate passwords over the web. Links to passwords expire after a certain number of views and/or time has passed.

Hosted at pwpush.com but you can also easily run your own private instance with just a few steps.

• Easy-to-install: Host your own via Docker, a cloud service or just use pwpush.com
• Open Source: No blackbox code. Only trusted, tested and reviewed open source code.
• Versatile: Push passwords, text, files or URLs that auto-expire and self delete.
• Audit logging: Track and control what you've shared and see who has viewed it.
• Encrypted storage: All sensitive data is stored encrypted and deleted entirely once expired.
• Host your own: Database backed or ephemeral, easily run your own instance isolated from the world.
• JSON API: Raw JSON API available for 3rd party tools or command line via curl or wget.
• Command line interface: Automate your password distribution with CLI tools or custom scripts.
• Logins: Invite your colleagues and track what is pushed and who retrieved it.
• Admin Dashboard: Manage your self-hosted instance with a built in admin dashboard.
• Internationalized: 29 language translations are bundled in. Easily selectable via UI or URL
• Themes: 26 themes bundled in courtesy of Bootswatch. Select with a simple environment variable.
• Unbranded delivery page: No logos, superfluous text or unrelated links to confuse end users.
• Customizable: Change text and default options via environment variables.
• Light & dark themes: Via CSS @media integration, the default site theme follows your local preferences.
• Re-Brandable: Customize the site name, tagline and logo to fit your environment.
• Custom CSS: Bundle in your own custom CSS to add your own design.
• 10 Years Old: Password Pusher has securely delivered millions and millions of passwords in its 10 year history.
• Actively Maintained: I happily work for the good karma of the great IT/Security community.
• Honest Software: Open source written and maintained by me with the help of some great contributors. No organizations, corporations or evil agendas.

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⚡️ Quick Start

→ Go to pwpush.com and try it out.

or

→ Run your own instance with docker run -d -p "5100:5100" pglombardo/pwpush:latest or a production ready setup with a database & SSL/TLS.

or

→ Use one of the 3rd party tools that interface with Password Pusher.

💾 Run Your Own Instance

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We've recently introduced a single universal container. Migration for existing users is easy - please refer to the documentation here.

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Note: Password Pusher can be largely configured by a config file or environment variables so after you pick your deployment method below, make sure to read the configuration page. Take particular attention in setting your own custom encryption key which isn't required but provides the best security for your instance.

On Docker

Docker images of Password Pusher are available on Docker hub.

➜ ephemeral Temporary database that is wiped on container restart.

docker run -d -p "5100:5100" pglombardo/pwpush:latest

Learn more

➜ using an External Postgres Database Postgres database backed instance.

docker run -d -p "5100:5100" pglombardo/pwpush:latest -e DATABASE_URL=postgres://pwpush_user:pwpush_passwd@postgres:5432/pwpush_db

Learn more

➜ using an External MariaDB (MySQL) Database Mariadb database backed instance.

docker run -d -p "5100:5100" pglombardo/pwpush:latest -e DATABASE_URL=mysql2://pwpush_user:pwpush_passwd@mysql:3306/pwpush_db

Learn more

Note: Putting passwords in a command line is bad practice. See the related Database pages for alternative options.

See Also: Guide to DATABASE_URL

Docker Tags Reference

Tag	Purpose
vX.X.X	Versioned tags
stable	The most stable tag for proven releases
latest	The latest (most recent) released vX.X.X
nightly	The nightly development build

If in doubt, use latest or the stable tag.

The previously used release tag is no longer used and won't be updated again. Instead use the stable tag.

With Docker Compose

➜ One-liner Password Pusher with a Postgres Database

curl -s -o docker-compose.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pglombardo/PasswordPusher/master/containers/docker/docker-compose-postgres.yml && docker compose up -d

➜ One-liner Password Pusher with a MariaDB (MySQL) Database

curl -s -o docker-compose.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pglombardo/PasswordPusher/master/containers/docker/docker-compose-mariadb.yml && docker compose up -d

On Kubernetes

Instructions and explanation of a Kubernetes setup can be found here.

On Kubernetes with Helm

A basic helm chart with instructions can be found here.

On Microsoft Azure

There used to be a 3rd party blog post with instructions but it's been deleted. If anyone has instructions they would like to contribute, it would be greatly appreciated.

See issue #277

On Heroku

One click deploy to Heroku Cloud without having to set up servers.

This option will deploy a production Password Pusher instance backed by a postgres database to Heroku. Heroku used to offer free dynos but that is no longer the case from November 28, 2022. Hosting charges will be incurred.

On PikaPods

One click deploy to PikaPods from $1/month. Start free with $5 welcome credit.

With Nginx

See the prebuilt Docker Compose example here.

From Source

I generally don't suggest building this application from source code for casual use. The is due to the complexities in the tool set across platforms. Running from source code is best when you plan to develop the application.

For quick and easy, use the Docker containers instead.

But if you're resolute & brave, continue on!

Dependencies

• Ruby 3.0 or greater
• Recent Node.js stable & Yarn
• Compiler tools: gcc g++ make
• Other: git

SQLite3 backend

• Make sure to install sqlite3 development libraries: apt install libsqlite3-dev sqlite3

git clone [email protected]:pglombardo/PasswordPusher.git
cd PasswordPusher
gem install bundler

bundle config set --local deployment 'true'
bundle install --without development production test
./bin/rails assets:precompile
./bin/rails db:setup
./bin/rails server

Then view the site @ http://localhost:5100/.

Postgres, MySQL or Mariadb backend

• Make sure to install related database driver development libraries: e.g. postgres-dev or libmariadb-dev

git clone [email protected]:pglombardo/PasswordPusher.git
cd PasswordPusher
gem install bundler

export RAILS_ENV=production

# Update the following line to point to your Postgres (or MySQL/Mariadb) instance
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://passwordpusher_user:passwordpusher_passwd@postgres:5432/passwordpusher_db

bundle install --without development test
./bin/rails assets:precompile
./bin/rails db:setup
./bin/rails server --environment=production

Then view the site @ http://localhost:5100/.

🔨 3rd Party Tools

Command Line Utilities

• The almost official pwpush-cli (in pre-beta): CLI for Password Pusher with authentication support

• thekamilpro/kppwpush: A PowerShell Module available in the PowerShell Gallery. See the livestream of its creation on The Kamil Pro's channel.

• pgarm/pwposh: a PowerShell module available in the PowerShell Gallery

• lnfnunes/pwpush-cli: a Node.js based CLI

• abkierstein/pwpush: a Python based CLI

GUIs

• Tachaeon/PWPush-Generator: A powershell GUI frontend for pwpush.com

Libraries & APIs

• oyale/PwPush-PHP: a PHP library wrapper to easily push passwords to any Password Pusher instance

Android Apps

• Pushie by chesire

Application Integrations

• Slack: How to Add a Custom Slash Command

• Unraid Application

• Alfred Workflow for Mac users

See also the Tools Page on pwpush.com.

📡 The Password Pusher API

• JSON API Documentation
• Walkthrough & Examples

🇮🇹 Internationalization

Password Pusher is currently available in 29 languages with more languages being added often as volunteers apply.

From within the application, the language is selectable from a language menu. Out of the box and before any language menu selection is done, the default language for the application is English.

Changing the Default Language

The default language can be changed by setting an environment variable with the appropriate language code:

PWP__DEFAULT_LOCALE=es

For more details, a list of supported language codes and further explanation, see the bottom of this configuration file.

🛟 Help Out

pwpush.com is hosted on Digital Ocean and is happily paid out of pocket by myself for more than 10 years.

But you could help out greatly by signing up to Digital Ocean with this link (and get $200 credit). In return, Password Pusher gets a helpful hosting credit.

tldr; Sign up to Digital Ocean with this link, get a $200 credit for free and help Password Pusher out.

📼 Credits

Translators

Thanks to our great translators!

If you would like to volunteer and assist in translating, see this page.

Name	Language
Oyale	Catalan
Finn Skaaning	Danish
Mihail Tchetchelnitski	Finnish
Thibaut	French
Thomas Wölk	German	Github, Twitter
Martin Otto	German
Robin Jørgensen	Norwegian
Łukasz	Polish
Jair Henrique	Portuguese
Fabrício Rodrigues	Portuguese
Ivan Freitas	Portuguese
Sara Faria	Portuguese
Oyale	Spanish
johan323	Swedish
Fredrik Arvas	Swedish
Pedro Marques	European Portuguese

Also thanks to translation.io for their great service in managing translations. It's also generously free for open source projects.

Containers

Thanks to:

• @fiskhest the Kubernetes installation instructions and manifests.

• @sfarosu for contributing the Docker, Kubernetes & OpenShift container support.

• sirux88 for cleaning up the Docker files and adding multistage builds.

Other

Thanks to:

• @iandunn for better password form security.

• Kasper 'kapöw' Grubbe for the JSON POST fix.

• JarvisAndPi for the favicon design

...and many more. See the Contributors page for more details.

🛡 License

This project is licensed under the terms of the Apache License 2.0 license. See LICENSE for more details.

📃 Citation

@misc{PasswordPusher,
  author = {Peter Giacomo Lombardo},
  title = {An application to securely communicate passwords over the web. Passwords automatically expire after a certain number of views and/or time has passed.},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/pglombardo/PasswordPusher}}
}