I found keypass four or five years ago, and I've been using it since. It's a great little tool, glad to see that people are still working on it.
KeePassX 2.0 Alpha 5 released
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Re: KeePassX 2.0 Alpha 5 released
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm using KeePass on Linux and it integrates flawlessly with Firefox and Chrome, just like LastPass does.
It does? How? I'm running KeePassX. Is that what you're using?
He probably means these plugins https://github.com/pfn/passifox
Re: KeePassX 2.0 Alpha 5 released
#33If there was one thing that ought to be improved, that I haven't seen any improvement in thus far, it's the UI.
It's hideous and uses a completely wrong metaphor. It's like an MFC wizard app from 1996. Toolbar buttons for creating new password databases? Requiring manual saves, so that it loses your password if you accidentally close without saving? The way it's currently set up, it thinks it's an editor for password databases, you know, for all those password databases you edit on a daily basis, email around the company, etc.
It ought to have a search-oriented interface, perhaps bound to a hotkey, perhaps with pinning of commonly used passwords - almost anything would be better than the treeview / listview combo. Auto-save should be the default, as well as versioning, and it should be damn hard to lose passwords even when your database is stored on dropbox and has conflicting updates from multiple locations.
It makes me angry every time I have to use it.
Re: KeePassX 2.0 Alpha 5 released
#34If there was one thing that ought to be improved, that I haven't seen any improvement in thus far, it's the UI. It's hideous and uses a completely wrong metaphor. It's like an MFC wizard app from 1996. Toolbar buttons for creating new password databases? Requiring manual saves, so that it loses your password if you accidentally close without saving? The way it's currently set up, it thinks it's an editor for password…
Absolutely agree. As much I love KeePassX much more I hate it's rigid UI.
Re: KeePassX 2.0 Alpha 5 released
#35If there was one thing that ought to be improved, that I haven't seen any improvement in thus far, it's the UI. It's hideous and uses a completely wrong metaphor. It's like an MFC wizard app from 1996. Toolbar buttons for creating new password databases? Requiring manual saves, so that it loses your password if you accidentally close without saving? The way it's currently set up, it thinks it's an editor for password…
Have a look at my Bluepass project. It uses a much more modern UI and has P2P sync built in. I did a (failed) fundraiser for it on Hacker News 6 months ago. After the fundraiser failed I continued to work on it in my spare time. See bluepass.org and github.com/geertj/bluepass. I'm about 2-3 weeks away from releasing an updated version.
Re: KeePassX 2.0 Alpha 5 released
#36I currently use KeePass on Windows, Linux, and Android. Can anyone explain what KeePassX is and what its relationship with KeePass is? All I can seem to find is that it's a cross platform version of KeePass (which KeePass is for my needs) and only supports the older database format.
How do you sync them across those platforms? How does it compare to LastPass. LastPass Chrome extension is really great.
You can store the .kdb file on a shared dropbox folder. I know it's not as safe as keeping separate .kdb files (theoretically your dropbox folder can be hacked, but they still would need your master password), but to me it's a sacrifice in the name of convenience.
Pro tip: you can even sync to the minikeepass app on your iphone. It's great having all your passwords always with you!
Re: KeePassX 2.0 Alpha 5 released
#37I currently use KeePass on Windows, Linux, and Android. Can anyone explain what KeePassX is and what its relationship with KeePass is? All I can seem to find is that it's a cross platform version of KeePass (which KeePass is for my needs) and only supports the older database format.
How do you sync them across those platforms? How does it compare to LastPass. LastPass Chrome extension is really great.
Dropbox of course. There are some good mobile clients (i use KyPass on iPhone), so you can have your passwords literally everywhere.
Re: KeePassX 2.0 Alpha 5 released
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
The original KeePass was only for windows. Someone forked it and made KeepassL for linux. It was then rewritten for cross compatibility and came to be known as KeePassX. Now that the Keepass itself is cross compatible, it kind of makes KeepassX redundant.
Not really. Keepass2 has a lot of problems on Linux based operating systems. Keepassx however, while lacking in embellished features works perfectly and fits right into gnome shell.
What problems?
Re: KeePassX 2.0 Alpha 5 released
#39If there was one thing that ought to be improved, that I haven't seen any improvement in thus far, it's the UI. It's hideous and uses a completely wrong metaphor. It's like an MFC wizard app from 1996. Toolbar buttons for creating new password databases? Requiring manual saves, so that it loses your password if you accidentally close without saving? The way it's currently set up, it thinks it's an editor for password…
Absolutely agree. As much I love KeePassX much more I hate it's rigid UI.
For everyone who dislikes the UI there is also https://github.com/mstarke/MacPass
Also someone made a nice mookup how it should look like, but coding it is something different.
http://www.keepassx.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3382
Re: KeePassX 2.0 Alpha 5 released
#40If there was one thing that ought to be improved, that I haven't seen any improvement in thus far, it's the UI. It's hideous and uses a completely wrong metaphor. It's like an MFC wizard app from 1996. Toolbar buttons for creating new password databases? Requiring manual saves, so that it loses your password if you accidentally close without saving? The way it's currently set up, it thinks it's an editor for password…
There are autosaving options in Preferences, check it out. The UI can be improved, sure, but you have to remember that this is a complete rewrite of the 1.x version in order to support KeePass v2 format -- it's not even reached feature parity with the old version (although new features are starting to appear, like AutoType).
And of course, this is Free Software; if you think it's so bad, propose a patch or fork it.