Am 09. Nov, 2023 schwätzte pa...@quillandmouse.com so:
moin moin Paul,
Folks: I have a bash/GPG based password manager I wrote years ago, but I'd like to use something more "accepted/popular". The problem I have with the other password managers I've looked at is that you can store a very limited amount of information for each "account". For example, for one of my logins, I may have to store the answers to three security questions, an account login, email address, the actual password, and maybe the mobile phone number associated with the login. I also object to my password information being stored online by some password manager vendor. Does anyone know of a password manager which will store a variety of user-defined information for each login, and not store that information on the internet (and which is free as in beer)?
In KeePass-based projects like KeePassXC you can store the usual title, username, password, URL and notes in the main screen/tab. In the advanced tab you can store further key/value pairs. This works well for storing random strings for security questions and answers. The responses can been starred out like password entries are. There isn't a keyboard shortcut to copy them, but there is a menu drop down, so you can get the values without having to open the entry. There's also an option to add attachments. I say KeePass-based because KeePass was the original project. KeePassX was a port of the windows KeePass project to Linux and other platforms. KeePassXC is a more active, community developed fork of KeePassX. I've been using the latter two for many, many years. Thanks to the developers and packagers for the projects! All 3 are using KeePass file formats. There are other packages that understand the formats. F-Droid has several if you're wanting some of your passwords on your phone. Because it's a common format you have some choice into which tool you want to use. There are also some command line options. The biggest lack I've seen for host-your-own is that there isn't a secure way to do partial sync between password files. For instance, I don't need all my passwords on my phone, so would like to have phone.kdbx with just the few I need, but be able to sync with my everything.kdbx file if changes are made in one or the other. KeePassXC FAQ on file formats. https://keepassxc.org/docs/#faq-format ciao, der.hans
Paul
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