Goodbye Keepass, Hello PassPack
I have been an avid fan of Keepass, and have used this password management software for almost over a year now.
It is a desktop password management tool that runs on both Windows and Linux. Keepass has almost managed to solve the “password management nightmares” that I have been through. Well Almost!
There is just ONE issue with this otherwise brilliant freeware.
The thing this, if you are using Keepass from multiple computer terminals, syncing individual Keepass database files becomes a real problem.
Everytime, I change my Internet banking password from my office or from a cyber cafe, I have to mail the database file to my home pc, and vice versa, just to make sure the files are in sync, always.
This introduces an additional hassle, which can only be solved, if Keepass, were to store it’s database online, so that syncing becomes non-issue OR What if Keepass had an online version, which worked right out of the browser? A sort of del.icio.us for passwords.
Well you prayers are finally answered.
Let me introduce Passpack, probably world’s best online password manager, right now.
What, you don’t trust online password managers? Well read this blog entry, in that case.
Passpack, is in Beta4 right now and I am sure, that by the time they are into 1.0, they will pretty much have all of Keepass’ features covered.
Right now,the only feature I am missing is the lack of history or backups.
You see, whenever, you change a password, with Keepass, a backup is created immediately. You can access the old username/password combination from the “Backup” node of the tree shown in the left hand side.
I hope Passpack, is listening.
Hello,
Thanks for this article and kind words! Many new features are planned, among which the history feature you mentioned. Watch the blog for updates.
PassPack is listening.
Cheers,
Tara
(PassPack Partner & Designer)
Tara
March 15, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Hi,
I am the PassPack developer and I want to add to Tara’s comment.
The password history is currently memorized, however we are still testing the user interface for this. So, if you change a password now, you will eventually see it when the function will be fully activated.
Likewise, PassPack currently manages 10 cascading backups and restore points when Pass or Packing Key are changed, but we are still working on the user interface. In the meantime, we could restore a previous backup manually should need be.
Thank you for your enthusiasm,
Francesco
Francesco Sullo
March 15, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Cool
Neel
March 15, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Hi,
probably writing about a Passpack competitor here it’s not fair thing to do … But, hey, it’s the market baby!
I’m the co-founder of Clipperz, an online password manager that has a number of interesting features: direct login to web sites, offline version, bookmarklet for quick data insertion, …
Give it a try, it’s free and completely anonymous.
Thanks,
Marco
Marco Barulli
March 24, 2007 at 9:47 pm
how do i import the keepass DB into passpack? i have 693 entries and there is no way i am going to do that manually….
EB
April 7, 2009 at 10:04 am
Another option is to use DropBox. This will sync a directory between OS’s and has an online version with revision history.
I have simply put the Keepass database in my dropbox and can now usit from all 3 OS’s and different sites.
Bas Ovink
April 13, 2009 at 10:23 pm
I use Live Mesh to sync Keepass database file between my home and work pc. I have been using it for 6 months now. That works great.
Rajbir Jawanda
May 2, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Dude, what’s, with, all the, unnecessary, commas,?
Andrew
June 16, 2009 at 3:02 am