PD Password Manager for Blesta

PD Password Manager lets a Blesta host generate strong passwords, keep shared credentials in an encrypted vault, and hand a password to a customer on a link that destroys itself after one view. No more passwords pasted into support tickets or emailed in plain text. The free version covers the generator, the vault, one-time links and an audit trail. PD Password Manager Pro adds passphrase-protected links, a password health check with breach detection, staff access control and a customer-facing vault.

It is built for hosting companies and agencies whose support team handles customer logins every day and needs a safer, more accountable way to do it.

Why hosts choose PD Password Manager

Stop sending passwords in plain text. A secret goes out as a one-time link. It reveals once and is then permanently destroyed; a second open shows "no longer available". If two people open it at the same moment, only one sees the secret.

A leaked database or a leaked link is not enough. Vault entries are encrypted at rest under a key held on your server, so a database dump alone cannot read them. A one-time link's key is split between the link and the server, so neither a database leak nor a leaked link can reveal it on its own. If the server cannot hold its encryption key, saving secrets is refused rather than stored weakly.

Know who looked. Revealing a stored password is recorded with who did it and which entry. Creating, updating, deleting, sharing and revoking are all recorded in Activity.

Link previews cannot burn a secret. A chat or email preview bot that merely fetches the URL does not use it up; the secret is shown only on a deliberate click.

Everything on your own server. Passwords are generated locally from a cryptographically secure source and nothing is sent anywhere. No paid third-party service is used and nothing is metered.

Free to start, Pro when you need it. Pro is a second addon on the same licence. If it lapses, the module carries on as the free version and nothing is deleted.

How it works

1. Install PD Password Manager from PD Modules. It adds a Password Manager section to your Blesta admin.
2. Generate or store. Create a password or passphrase, or save a login, API key, secure note or card detail to the vault.
3. Hand it over. Share a secret as a one-time link, or pick a client and service in Reset & hand off.
4. Watch it land. Recent links shows whether each link is active, opened or expired, so you know when a customer has collected it.

What you get in Blesta

Generator

• Character passwords from 4 to 64 characters in four styles: all characters, letters and numbers, easy to read (no look-alike characters) or easy to say
• Every result contains at least one character of each class the style uses
• Passphrases of 3 to 8 memorable words with your choice of separator, capitalisation and an optional number
• A strength meter with an entropy estimate, and Generate buttons inside the vault editor, Share a secret and Reset & hand off
• A generated password can be saved to the vault or shared as a one-time link in one click

Vault

• Stores logins, API and licence keys, secure notes and card details, with folders and tags
• Search covers titles, usernames, URLs and tags; filter and rate entries by strength
• Attach an entry to a client by searching their name, company or email, and it is there when you open that client's account
• A password stays hidden until an admin deliberately clicks Reveal. Secrets are kept exactly as typed
• Deleting asks for confirmation and is recorded
• Export what you want to keep before uninstalling

One-time links

• Deliver to anyone with the link, or restrict to the signed-in client it was addressed to. Choose which modes are allowed, and a default
• Free links live up to 24 hours and are single-view
• The link token never reaches web-server logs or the Referer header
• Revoke a link from Recent links so it can never be opened. The link is shown to you once, right after it is made
• Reset & hand off: pick a client and one of their services, fill a strong password and email the client the one-time link through an editable template. The screen offers "Apply on the server now" only where the platform can do it; on Blesta you change the password on the service page. If the email cannot be sent, the screen says so and the link stays ready to copy

Pro

• Passphrase-protected links: a link cannot be read without a passphrase that is stored nowhere. A wrong passphrase does not use up the view; after too many wrong tries the link locks. You can require a passphrase on every public link
• Multi-view, 90-day and notify-on-view links: allow more than one view, extend life up to 90 days, and email the sender the moment the secret is opened
• Password Health: flags weak, reused and ageing passwords with a 0 to 100 score and a fix-it list
• Breach check: uses the k-anonymity range service of a public breach database. Only the first five characters of a hash leave your server; the password and its full hash never do. If the service is unreachable, passwords are not reported as clean
• Staff access control: give roles view, reveal and manage rights separately. The built-in Administrators role always keeps full access
• Client-area vault: off until you turn it on and mark an entry visible. A customer sees and reveals only their own entries, in a page inside their client area

What your customers get

• A secure link, not a plain-text password. A client-area link can be opened only by the signed-in client it was addressed to, and reveals once
• Their own credentials, when you choose (Pro). Reveal and copy a login from their account without raising a ticket, with your company named in the note beneath
• Add a login to a ticket without writing it in the message, from their credentials page. It is stored encrypted, only staff whose role may reveal can open it, and the client can delete it at any time
• Everything customers see is built from language files and templates, so it can be translated and reworded in an override folder that updates never overwrite

Security built in

• Vault secrets are encrypted at rest; each install uses its own key.
• Passwords and passphrases are generated on your server and never sent anywhere.
• The assistant tools are never given a password, an encrypted value or a link token, and nothing they do decrypts the vault.
• Anything containing HTML, such as a title or username, is shown as text and never executed.

Free and Pro

PD Password Manager is free and never expires. PD Password Manager Pro is £10 per month, added to the same licence in place. If Pro lapses, a 14-day grace period keeps its features working, then the Pro features lock and the module carries on as the free version. Nothing is deleted and adding Pro again restores it. Uninstalling removes the vault, links, activity and settings tables.

Requirements

• Blesta 6 or later on PHP 8.2 or later, with the ionCube Loader
• PD Modules, the free control panel every PD module installs into