[CentOS] KeePassX replacement

Sat Sep 16 14:28:51 UTC 2017
Zdenek Sedlak <dev at apgrco.com>

On 2017-09-16 12:55, Tom Longfield wrote:
> I have been using KeePassXC (though mostly on Debian) for quite a
> while now and am happy to report it works well.  Nothing springs to
> mind that annoys me and it's a decent drop in replacement.
> My setup sounds pretty similar to your own (also use keepass2android,
> though not KeePass on Windows).
>
> I would be inclined to compile from source yourself rather than use an
> unofficial repo you have no reason to trust for such a sensitive
> application.
>
> I'm not trying to besmirch the good name of
> copr.fedorainfracloud.org/bugzy but I've never heard of them and if
> you hadn't either that would give me pause for thought before I let
> their binaries at my passwords.
>
> On Fri 15 Sep 2017 @ 21:43, H wrote:
>> I have been using the KeePassX password manager on CentOS 6 and 7 for
>> some time and it works pretty well. On my Windows machine I use
>> KeePass which offers a number of features missing from KeePassX, I
>> also sync the database between several machines, including Android
>> units where I use keepass2android. Database compatibility is thus
>> required.
>>
>> KeePassX, however, does not seem to be maintained any more, the last
>> update was just a bit less than a year ago. It also has some annoying
>> bugs, including where switching keyboards on the computer corrupts
>> the username and the password if they include any character outside
>> the ASCII range.
>>
>> There seems to be a community fork called KeePassXC and I would like
>> to ask if anyone is using this password manager? It is not in EPEL,
>> nor in any other standard repository, only through an unofficial
>> repository at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/bugzy/keepassxc/,
>>
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AFAIK the KeePassXC is a package in Fedora, so it could be trusted.

I replaced KeePassX 1.x with this with a extra step of upgrading to
KeePassX 2.x first.

//Zdenek