{"id":122,"date":"2009-08-07T14:36:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T18:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/?p=122"},"modified":"2013-06-26T08:49:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:49:36","slug":"keepass-password-safe-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/2009\/08\/07\/keepass-password-safe-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"KeePass password safe for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Update (2013-06-26):<\/b> Updated for KeePass 2.22.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keepass.info\/\">KeePass password safe<\/a> is an effective way to manage your passwords securely and safely without writing them down in text files. However, the current Linux-native port <a href=\"http:\/\/keepassx.sf.net\/\">KeePassX<\/a> is still in development and not quite usable. Here is a port of KeePass 2.x (&#8220;Professional Edition&#8221;) to Linux without changing anything. This is done with the runtime of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mono-project.com\/\">Mono Project<\/a>, which allows for execution of .NET executables in non-Windows operating systems such as Linux.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mono (with Winforms support)<\/li>\n<li>APT-based distribution (RPM-based users can use alien to transform the package)<\/li>\n<li>GNOME (for menu item &#8211; if you want to invoke it on a, say like KDE or XFCE distro, then invoke \/usr\/bin\/keepass)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Installation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download the <a title=\"Linux package of KeePass\" href=\"https:\/\/my.owndrive.com\/public.php?service=files&amp;t=fde668ad24d6c08f894c67a00950a89d&amp;download&amp;file=\/Public\/keepass-2.22.deb\">Linux package of KeePass<\/a> (<a title=\"KeePass Linux package\" href=\"\/labs\/files\/keepass-2.22.deb\">alternate download if first one doesn&#8217;t work<\/a>).<!-- old obsolete version here: keepass-compdigitec-unofficial.deb --><\/li>\n<li>Install it (either double click on the downloaded package or run in a terminal in the same folder that you downloaded the package to <strong>sudo dpkg &#8211;install keepass-2.22.deb<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>To run, go to Applications &gt;&gt; Accessories or run keepass from the command line.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Screenshots<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/labs\/KeePass.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KeePass 2.08 running under Ubuntu Linux\" alt=\"KeePass 2.08 running under Ubuntu Linux\" src=\"\/images\/labs\/KeePass.png\" width=\"463\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/labs\/KeePass-menu.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KeePass menu entry\" alt=\"KeePass menu entry\" src=\"\/images\/labs\/KeePass-menu.png\" width=\"489\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/labs\/KeePass-tray.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KeePass notification area icon\" alt=\"KeePass notification area icon\" src=\"\/images\/labs\/KeePass-tray.png\" width=\"263\" height=\"24\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update (2013-06-26): Updated for KeePass 2.22. KeePass password safe is an effective way to manage your passwords securely and safely without writing them down in text files. However, the current Linux-native port KeePassX is still in development and not quite usable. Here is a port of KeePass 2.x (&#8220;Professional Edition&#8221;) to Linux without changing anything. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[37,548,550,549,862,551,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}