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I'd probably switch to KeePassX instead of running KeePass in wine if the password generator were as flexible.

by alyandon 10y ago

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the_af 10y ago
Why are you running KeePass in wine?
- Zuider 10y ago
  That could make sense OP dual-booted and the KeePass app and database were installed on the NTFS partition.
  - zokier 10y ago
    How exactly is that supposed to make sense?
    - Zuider 10y ago
      The advantage is that you get to keep your passwords on a single database rather than having a separate copy of the database for each operating system. Synchronizing two separate copies of the database would be painful. An alternate solution is to keep a single password database on a FAT32 formatted partition or thumbdrive which is readable from both Operating systems.
  - alyandon 10y ago
    Currently, no - but I have actually used a setup like that before.
- alyandon 10y ago
  I have very complex password generation requirements for some of the services I need to access and KeePassX does not: 1) have nearly the same level of support for defining complex password generation rules 2) have support for saving said custom password generation as a profile So, KeePass + wine it is until I have a better alternative. :)
  - zokier 10y ago
    But why Wine? http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/keepass2 http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/keepass2
    - alyandon 10y ago
      Inertia. I've been using KeePass for years and I'm still on v1 because at the time the v1 database format was more well supported across all the "keepass" compatible apps on iOS, OS X, Android, etc. What I have works for me very well although I will admit that the v2 database format is supported well enough these days that I could migrate.
      - zokier 10y ago
        Oh right, I didn't realize that people were still hanging on the legacy version. Then I suppose Wine does actually make sense
    - Pyramids 10y ago
      Unfortunately, the package is just a mono-wrapped version of keepass2, and in my experience runs equally as bad, if not worse, than keepass2 under WINE. Having used both for several months, I found the only workable option for myself was converting the database to KDB 1.x and using KeePassX.
  - distances 10y ago
    Do you have to change those passwords so frequently? You could just use an external service for creating these when needed.
    - alyandon 10y ago
      Often enough that I don't want to have to rely on a separate script or service to generate the passwords for me and save the profiles and then copy the result into KeePass entries.

I'd probably switch to KeePassX instead of running KeePass in wine if the password generator were as flexible.

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the_af 10y ago

Why are you running KeePass in wine?

Zuider 10y ago
That could make sense OP dual-booted and the KeePass app and database were installed on the NTFS partition.
- zokier 10y ago
  How exactly is that supposed to make sense?
  - Zuider 10y ago
    The advantage is that you get to keep your passwords on a single database rather than having a separate copy of the database for each operating system. Synchronizing two separate copies of the database would be painful. An alternate solution is to keep a single password database on a FAT32 formatted partition or thumbdrive which is readable from both Operating systems.
- alyandon 10y ago
  Currently, no - but I have actually used a setup like that before.
alyandon 10y ago
I have very complex password generation requirements for some of the services I need to access and KeePassX does not: 1) have nearly the same level of support for defining complex password generation rules 2) have support for saving said custom password generation as a profile So, KeePass + wine it is until I have a better alternative. :)
- zokier 10y ago
  But why Wine? http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/keepass2 http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/keepass2
  - alyandon 10y ago
    Inertia. I've been using KeePass for years and I'm still on v1 because at the time the v1 database format was more well supported across all the "keepass" compatible apps on iOS, OS X, Android, etc. What I have works for me very well although I will admit that the v2 database format is supported well enough these days that I could migrate.
    - zokier 10y ago
      Oh right, I didn't realize that people were still hanging on the legacy version. Then I suppose Wine does actually make sense
  - Pyramids 10y ago
    Unfortunately, the package is just a mono-wrapped version of keepass2, and in my experience runs equally as bad, if not worse, than keepass2 under WINE. Having used both for several months, I found the only workable option for myself was converting the database to KDB 1.x and using KeePassX.
- distances 10y ago
  Do you have to change those passwords so frequently? You could just use an external service for creating these when needed.
  - alyandon 10y ago
    Often enough that I don't want to have to rely on a separate script or service to generate the passwords for me and save the profiles and then copy the result into KeePass entries.