Setup KeepassXC under FreeBSD
In this Tutorial, I show you how you can install KeepassXC under FreeBSD.
KeepassXC is a community branch of KeePassXC—a native cross-platform port of KeePass Password Safe to add new features and improve it and bug fixes for a feature-rich, cross-platform and modern feature rich Open-source password manager.
Main features:
- Secure storage with AES, Twofish, or ChaCha20 encryption
- File format compatibility with KeePass2, KeePassX, MacPass, KeeWeb, and many others (KDBX 3.1 and 4.0)
- SSH agent integration
- Sync passwords with KeeShare
- Auto-Type to automatically fill out registration forms
- Support for key files and YubiKey-Challenge-Response for additional security
- TOTP generation (including Steam Guard)
- CSV import from other password managers (e.g., LastPass)
- Command-line interface
- Custom icons for database entries and downloading website favorites
- Functionality to merge databases
- Automatic reload of the database has changed externally
- Browser integration with KeePassXC browser for Google Chrome, Chromium, Vivaldi, and Mozilla Firefox.
Install KeepassXC
$: doas pkg install keepassxc
How do I use KeepassXC
I will briefly show you how to set up KeepassXC and how to use it.
When we start KeepassXc for the first time, we see the main screen.
Then we will create a new database. A new screen opens, and we can assign a database name here and optionally assign a description.
On the next screen, we can make encryption settings. Here we can, for example, set the encryption time and select the database format.
We can also make advanced settings. For example, we can make the following settings here:
- encryption algorithm
- Key derivation function
- Encryption passes
- memory usage
In the next step, we can now assign a password, with which the password database is encrypted. What I can recommend is to also create a key file which is then saved on an external USB stick or in an encrypted cloud service. This means that the database backed up twice.
We have now created an encrypted database so that we can use KeepassXC; with Firefox, we must first activate the browser integration in the KeepassXC settings. We then select Firefox and can then set additional settings. I leave that to you, which you want to set.
For the actual integration, we use the KeeepassXC-Browser extension.