It’s a problem trying to keep track of all of your passwords. I have a mac laptop, mac workstation at work, and a windows machine at home. Add to that the myriad of websites, servers and services that I have users and passwords for. It’s a mess. However, I managed to find a perfect solution…

On windows, my password manager of choice is pwsafe, but it only offers command-line functionality for mac (and presumably linux, though I’m not sure). On the Mac, I quite like Keychain, it is tightly integrated with the OS, but the passwords are locked away somewhere. Supposedly you can leverage the @security@ executable and gain access to it, but then importing/exporting would be a total pain in the ass.

My searches had turned up an app called “Password Gorilla”, but it kind of sucked, there appeared to be nothing for me!

Then I ran into KeePassX, a password management package with binaries for all of the major OS’s. I installed it onto the mac: perfect. It’s exactly what I wanted. There is some wonky UI issues (it forgets which password db you are using when you lock it), but it is totally workable.

I plan on using FUSE to create an ssh directory to one of my servers and store the binaries and password database on them. So far so good!