Keypass For Mac

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KeePass can be used via Mono on macOS but lacks vital functionality and feels sluggish and simply out of place. MacPass is an attempt to create a native macOS port of KeePass on a solid open source foundation with a vibrant community pushing it further to become the best KeePass client for macOS. KeePass is a Windows program so, as sarov found, installation and operation of KeePass on the Mac is not as simple or refined as on Windows.

A free, open-source, KeePass-compatible password manager for macOS.

MacPass behaves just the way a macOS app should

Tabs

Open files in individual windows or use tabs to use a single window.

Autosave

Your files will get saved constantly. Lost something and cannot recover it from an entries history? Browse versions to find what you're looking for!

Undo/Redo

MacPass supports Undo/Redo for everything you do with your data. Something went wrong and you want to revert it, just undo your changes an you're good to go!

Drag & Drop

Move or copy entries and groups inside a database or between two files. Add file attachments by dropping them onto entries. You even can add entries by dragging URLs onto the database.

Quicklook

Enable previews to leverage the QuickLook system for previews of a variety of file types to take a look at your file attachments.

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But there's more…

Autotype

Autotype enables MacPass to supply authentication credentials for any text based input. From webforms to authentication dialogs in any application. With Global Autotype you even can invoke Autotype from anywhere with a system wide shortcut. For more information please refer to the documentation

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Full KDB and KDBX Support

MacPass can read and write KDB Legacy files as well as the latest KDBX Format. You can even convert KDB to KDBX and the other way around.

Custom Icons

Change the way your entries and groups look by choosing from the many icons. If you like a bit of color, let MacPass generate icons based on websites for you!

Password Generator

Generate passwords using the built-in generator. Adjust the method to comply with any restriction you might encounter.

Expiration Dates

Set a date, when passwords expire. MacPass will mark them with a special icon so you'll spot them easily. You can even search for expired ones!

Synchronization

Changes made to your database outside of MacPass can be merged. No data is lost and all files are synchronized! You even can merge arbitrary files into one single database. MacPass is able to merge even KDB files, although the format is not designed for synchronisation.

History

If enabled, your changes to entries will get stored inside the database. Windows 10. Just restore an old state or take a look at what changed over time.

Auto update

MacPass incorporates Sparkle to support auto updates. You're always up to date!

Plugins

Since there's no one-size-fits-all, MacPass allows for Plugins to alter and extend its feauture set. Head over to the Plugin respository and start customizing.

Open-source

MacPass is free, open source software licensed under the GPLv3. It's build using other open source software like TransformerKit, KeePassKit, KissXML, Sparkle and a lot more. The source code is available on GitHub.

Most professionals use multiple highly complex passwords for every purpose so the only problem usually occurs is saving password somewhere safe and accessible. There are few good choices for storing passwords, some are online such as LastPass and some are off-line in which the passwords will be encrypted and stored in files. The best password manager application I know and ever tested is KeePass.

The main reason why KeePass 2.x is not so popular in Linux base operating system community is because this software does not have Linux or Mac version, but it is easy to run it on Linux. Mind that there are some native Linux applications such as KeePassX that can handle .kdb files which is used for KeePass 1.x but the KeePass2.x uses another file format which is .kdbx

In this tutorial, I’m going to write the best way to install KeePass on Mac OSX. Also you can find how to install KeePass on Linux in this website.

The following installation procedure is tested on Mac OSX Lion, but basically it should be applicable on most unix-base operating systems if you can install mono on them.

You should go through the following steps to get this done:

  1. Download and install mono
  2. Download and extract KeePass 2.x
  3. Run the KeePass executable file

1. Download and install mono

In order to download Mono, you should go to the following website and download the stable version that suites your OS (There is one version for Mac OSX):

install the Mono on your Mac (or what ever Unix distribution you have).

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2. Download and extract KeePass 2.x

Download the KeePass from the official website and then download the “Portable KeePass 2.x (ZIP Package)” from the right column as the image below shows:

then simply extract the ZIP file on your hard drive in what ever folder you want.

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3. Run the KeePass executable file

after extracting, open the terminal and go to the folder where you extracted the zip file in, and simply use the command below to set the proper permission: Best task manager for mac.

finally you are good to go and run the KeePass with the following command:

This way has a simple problem, you can not double click on the keepass to run it, so if you want to open it with double click, you can use a small shell script to load the keepass in mono. to do that, copy and paste the following lines of code to a file named ” KeePass.command ” and then save the file. later on you can run the keepass with double clicking on the shell script you just created 😉

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remember that the {PATH} should be replaced with the actual path the you extracted your keepass zip file in it.

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Update (20.Jul.2014): Felix Geyer who is working on KeePassX on 22.Sep.2010 announced that he is writing KeePassX2 from scratch and in this new version which will be similar to keepass 2.x, he is going to support .kdbx files. At the moment he released his 6th alpha version which has Mac OSx bundle, so you can easily install it via drag and drop into your Application folder. Remember that KeePassX is not official version of famous KeePass and is just a port and it tries to mimic the same functionality.