Undegreed said:
Forgive me in advance for rambling a bit.
I have been playing with passwordsafe for the past couple of days and following are my observations:
- The software is fairly intuitive, in that if I was able to figure it out most anybody could.
- The UN and PW data is all stored in a “safe” on my local drive. This means that I can't access my data on my tablet or phone…or home PC for that matter.
o There is some opportunity for storing the safe in the cloud and sharing access from there. I did not play with this
o I emailed the safe to my phone and downloaded it to my phone’s drive. I was able to access the data but couldn’t figure out how to use the app to directly access a website.
- There is no way to import my excel spreadsheet into the safe.
- I started to mess around with the random password generator but when I realized I couldn’t easily access the safe remotely I stopped.
As of now I’m going to get some tutoring from Jason (backslide) on Lastpass and see where that takes me. I will let you know how it goes.
Thanks for all the feedback.
-Steve
I have been playing with it also. The only way that I have found to be able to "share" your safe is to have it in the cloud. I currently have a "test" safe in my Dropbox account that I created to play with until I figured out how to get all my systems to see the safe. You don't have to use Dropbox, you can use a Google Drive, or Box account if you have one of those.
1. When you create the "safe" in Dropbox, it MUST be in the Apps/PasswdSafe Sync folder. If it isn't in this exact folder, your mobile devices won't be able to see (or access) the safe.
2. On you mobile devices you need to have the Password Safe app, AND the Password Sync app. The Password Sync app is your bridge between the cloud and your device.
3. Once you have installed the Sync app, open it and select the cloud that you have created your safe in, you will probably be prompted to allow access from the program (I was for Dropbox).
4. The Password Safe app should then see the safe by default and try to open it, you will be prompted for your safe password.
5. Enjoy your safe on your mobile device!
IF you just want PCs to have access the process is similar in that you need to have the safe in the cloud. The only difference is that you don't need to have the safe in a specific folder. I just got my work PC, home PC, home laptop, and my Galaxy Tab all synced using Dropbox. Once I finally figured out the Dropbox part, the rest was pretty easy.
I am still working on importing some UN/PW logs from my Excel spreadsheet to Password Safe, but have not had much luck yet.