Password management 2.0

I have previously been managing too many pin codes etcetera via a desktop application, GPass (often run via SSH and X11-forwarding), but this solution has a few shortcomings. I would like to have a secure solution for mobile access via iOS and Android plus easy desktop access via Mac OS, Windows and Ubuntu.

After looking around I found that KeePass seems to be a reliable piece of software. It is open source and OSI certified and runs on all platforms I am intereted in. Since I am interested in having the credentials always in synch without any manual intervention I was thinking about having the credential database on my server accessible via SCP or similar but I found the solution to be very easy to solve with KeePass simply refering to the Dropbox workspace. Since Dropbox has clients to the interesting platforms there is no need to setup a solution which relies on my own infrastructure. KeePass also has good import/export capabilities so I did not have to re-type any credentials.

I have only tried the solution briefly but as far as I have seen it works well on all mentioned platforms and new credentials gets picked up automatically. I duplicated the solution to work for Tanya as well and then there should ideally be no geeky manual steps involved and it passed the test. Problem solved 🙂

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