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Submitted by chatan on February 5, 2009 - 6:47am

When I used Linspire, I used PwManager from Linspire's CNR. It looked good and worked fine for me, but most importantly for me, it allowed me to export the passwords to a csv file where I could then print it out hardcopy. (I know it is not the safest practice in the world)

Now using MEPIS 8, I tried KeepassX (from the MEPIS Community Repo; http://mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18203 ) and it imported my PwManager .pwm files and looked and worked just fine, HOWEVER: it won't print or export to a usable format to print (edit: it does export to a txt file with some odd format, xml maybe?)

I also tried these programs, but none would done come close to my good old PwManager:
password-gorilla
kdepasswd
kwalletmanager

So, I installed PwManager on MEPIS 8 using the 64-bit rpm (Fedora Core 7 for x86_64 (fc7-x86_64)) via alien using the MEPIS wiki instructions.

Here is thePwManager homepage where I got the download:
http://passwordmanager.sourceforge.net/index.php

Cheers and let me know if you have any suggestions or other ideas.

Comments

Thanks for this interesting

by StormyJerry - Feb 6 2009 - 5:58am

Thanks for this interesting post. It says under Features on the homepage of Keepassx that the passwords can be exported as a *.txt file, so I wonder if you possibly missed something. And I see that you can click File --> Export To --> Text file, does that not work? I will give this a try and let you know if I see anything.

txt file = xml output?

by chatan - Feb 6 2009 - 2:35pm

Yeah, I did try the txt file (I expounded a little to the blog post), but I couldn't figure out (didn't spend too much time really) how to get the result txt output to print a usable "password list". Pretty sure it is possible for someone who knows what they are doing, but it was easier for me to install PwManager for now. On the KeepassX forum there were several requests for printable output. Using Keepass on Wine was the usual answer, which I'm not doing.
Cheers