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Introduction

Password Safe is a password database utility. Like many other such products, commercial and otherwise, it stores your passwords in an encrypted file, allowing you to remember only one password (the “safe combination”), instead of all the username/password combinations that you use.

Links

General

Docs

https://pwsafe.org/quickstart.shtml

user@host:~$ zless /usr/share/doc/passwordsafe/README.txt.gz

Files and Directories

General Files and Directories

File or Directory Description
$HOME/.pwsafe/ User-specific password safe directory.
$HOME/.pwsafe/pwsafe.psafe3 The user's default password database if no other database or location is specified.

Configuration Files

File or Directory Description
$HOME/.pwsafe/pwsafe.cfg The application's preference file. This file only stores preferences pertaining to appearance, such as last size & location of the application's window, last files opened, etc.

Getting Help

Manual pages:

user@host:~$ man pwsafe

Install

To install passwordsafe on Debian:

root@host:~$ apt-get update
root@host:~$ apt-get -y install passwordsafe

Configuration

None

Usage

General Usage

user@host:~$ pwsafe

Command Line Parameters

Start pwsafe with a configuration file other than the users default configuration file $HOME/.pwsafe/pwsafe.cfg:

user@host:~$ pwsafe -g <config-file> [<database-file>]

Start pwsafe in a read-only mode:

user@host:~$ pwsafe -r [<database-file>]

Perform validity checks against a given password database file in order to ensure its internal consistency. Correct inconsistencies if necessary:

user@host:~$ pwsafe -v <database-file>

Start pwsafe closed, with no initial database opening dialog:

user@host:~$ pwsafe -c

Start pwsafe minimized in the system tray:

user@host:~$ pwsafe -s

Start pwsafe with the two options -c and -s combined:

user@host:~$ pwsafe -m

Status Check

None

Recipies

None

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Known Issues

None

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