Hacker News Reader

Comment by alyandon | Hacker News Reader

I have very complex password generation requirements for some of the services I need to access and KeePassX does not:

    1) have nearly the same level of support for defining complex password generation rules
    2) have support for saving said custom password generation as a profile

So, KeePass + wine it is until I have a better alternative. :)

View on HN

But why Wine?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/keepass2

Inertia. I've been using KeePass for years and I'm still on v1 because at the time the v1 database format was more well supported across all the "keepass" compatible apps on iOS, OS X, Android, etc.

What I have works for me very well although I will admit that the v2 database format is supported well enough these days that I could migrate.

Oh right, I didn't realize that people were still hanging on the legacy version. Then I suppose Wine does actually make sense

Unfortunately, the package is just a mono-wrapped version of keepass2, and in my experience runs equally as bad, if not worse, than keepass2 under WINE.

Having used both for several months, I found the only workable option for myself was converting the database to KDB 1.x and using KeePassX.

Do you have to change those passwords so frequently? You could just use an external service for creating these when needed.

Often enough that I don't want to have to rely on a separate script or service to generate the passwords for me and save the profiles and then copy the result into KeePass entries.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com