[CentOS] KeePassX replacement

Wed Sep 20 22:32:21 UTC 2017
H <agents at meddatainc.com>

On 09/18/2017 11:54 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> On Sat, September 16, 2017 1:45 pm, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
>> H <agents at meddatainc.com> 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.
>> Are you aware that KeePass 2 works under Linux, with mono? There are
>> also ports for Android, but I've never tried them.
>>
>> You may have reasons to prefer KeePassX over KeePass 2, though.
> I for one use keepassx. My password database is synchronized between
> variety of systems, and I can view/edit it on: CentOS, FreeBSD, MS
> Windows, Android (and should be able on any derivatives of those). I
> didn't try iOS as currently I don't have a need in that.
>
> Incidentally, does anybody know if there is any necessity in keepassx to
> be patched? Did I read the original post correctly: there is no activity
> on the development site for long time? Should there be any? (As, I would
> say for comparison: cvs is so established software that there is no
> development to expect, only if there are any security holes found those
> need to be patched). Any insight on KeePassX anybody?
>
> Valeri
>
>> --
>> Yves Bellefeuille
>> <yan at storm.ca>
>>
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I found KeePassX for Linux lacking compared to KeePass on Windows, specifically:

- It does not support references; and

- When switching keyboards, characters in the password (possibly even userid) are switched, almost like it is storing key codes rather than characters. Big annoyance for me since I need to make sure to always switch back to the US English keyboard when using AutoFill.