There’s also no good way to implement this kind of setup on mobile. LastPass might charge you money, but at least it abstracts away login data and makes it even more convenient. Honestly, all the setup and janky extensions and needing to fill in URLs makes KeePass a less attractive prospect than something like LastPass. It’s functional, but development looks frozen with no sign of continuing. Users have mixed reviews of it, but it’s also the only game in town for Firefox people. Just be sure not to add duplicate entries for previous entries that don’t have a URL.įirefox has PassIFox. You can also add login data to your database when you enter a password at a URL that’s not stored in KeePass, which is neat. If you have multiple accounts, it’ll let you choose an account by clicking the icon in the menu bar. No complaints there.ĬhromeIPass autofills a page if it’s your only login. All three do more or less the same thing- auto-filling your password data.Ĭhrome has chromeIPass. I dug up compatible browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. On Linux, it’s /usr/lib/keepass2/ by default. On Windows, that is under Program Files (unless you have the portable version). This is located wherever you keep the KeePass executable. To install, you drop it in the KeePass directory. Downloading a 2.0 version of KeePass should do the trick there. It’s a command-line package manager for Microsoft’s OS and it’s much easier than doing the manual installation of keepasshttp.įor Linux and Mac, you need to run KeePass under Mono. Next, you need keepasshttp, a bit of software that securely transfers password data by http. This is also a security issue, so be careful with what you leave running. To transfer data from KeePassX to a browser, it means keeping your database open. You’ll also need the alpha version that creates KeePass 2.0 databases. It’s the free, cross platform version that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. Setup KeePass Data Transferįor this tutorial, we’ll assume you’re using KeePassX. Open your KeePass database and enter that into the URL field.ĭo that for whatever login entries you want to use within a browser. For example, mine would be this one for Yahoo. Go to whatever page you login to a website on.
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