With the onslaught of data breaches that happened in 2015 (about 65,000 according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report), INF presents this multi-part blog series about keeping your data safe in the digital age.<\/p>\n
A<\/b>ccessing <\/b>Y<\/b>our <\/b>P<\/b>assword <\/b>D<\/b>atabase <\/b>o<\/b>n Different <\/b>D<\/b>evices<\/b><\/p>\n
The last blog post of this series covered setting up a password database in KeePass and accessing it on your personal computer<\/a>.\u00a0 This blog post will cover accessing your passwords on multiple devices.<\/p>\n Storing your Password Database in an Accessible Place<\/b><\/p>\n If you only want access to your passwords on your laptop or desktop, storing the database file (*.kdbx file) locally is fine.\u00a0 However, if you want to be able to retrieve your passwords from your phone, tablet, etc., the file needs to be stored in a cloud.\u00a0 If you already have a cloud account, you can store it there.\u00a0 If you do not have a cloud account and you won\u2019t be using it for large files, Dropbox is great free option to consider (https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/<\/a>).\u00a0 It takes about 3 minutes to sign up and you get 2GB of space for free.\u00a0 Your *.kdbx file won\u2019t even use 1% of that amount.<\/p>\n Once you have your Cloud account set up, move your password database file to the cloud.\u00a0 This benefits you in multiple ways.\u00a0 First of all, you can access your passwords from all of your devices.\u00a0 Secondly, your password database will now be backed up on a regular basis.\u00a0 In fact, Dropbox keeps all deleted and updated versions of your files from the last thirty days.\u00a0 So, if you accidently delete your file from anywhere, you can restore it from dropbox.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Retrieving Passwords on your iPhone or iPad<\/b><\/p>\n If you want to access passwords on your iPhone, you need to download the app for the cloud that you are using onto your device. In the case of Dropbox, you will download the Dropbox app from the app store and use your account information to sign in.\u00a0 You will then need to download the app \u201cMiniKeePass\u201d.<\/p>\n To load your password database into MiniKeePass, open the Dropbox app (or your Cloud app) and click on your *.kdbx file.\u00a0 The cloud app will not be able to show a preview of the file, which is expected.\u00a0 Click on the icon of the square with an arrow pointing up, which should give you a menu with multiple options.\u00a0 Click the \u201cOpen in\u2026\u201d option and select \u201cCopy to MiniKeePass\u201d.\u00a0 This has now stored a copy of the password database in your MiniKeePass app.\u00a0 This is important to note as it is just a copy.\u00a0 If you make changes to the file on another device, you will have to go through the process of loading your password database again.<\/p>\n The actions above will open MiniKeePass and display the database file. To open it, click on the filename.\u00a0 The app will ask for the database password.\u00a0 Enter your password and your database will display.\u00a0 You can browse by folder or you can use the \u201cSearch\u201d box.\u00a0 To use the passwords, click on an entry and click on the username or password.\u00a0 This copies that text to the clipboard.\u00a0 You can then paste it wherever you would like.<\/p>\n Retrieving Passwords on your Android\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n If you want to access passwords on your Android, you need to download the app for the cloud that you are using. In the case of Dropbox, you will download the Dropbox app from the app store and use your account information to sign in.\u00a0 You will then need to download the app KeePass2Android from the app store.\u00a0 Launch the newly downloaded app and click the \u201cOpen File\u201d button.\u00a0 You can browse to your password database file in your cloud and open it with your password.\u00a0 You will then be able to search for the password that you want and copy\/paste it any location.<\/p>\n Retrieving Passwords on your Chromebook<\/b><\/p>\n If you are using a Chromebook, there is a strong possibility that the cloud that you are utilizing is Google Drive.\u00a0 Place your *.kdbx file in your Google Drive cloud and install the KeePass Chrome app.\u00a0 Open your new app and select \u201cOpen File\u201d.\u00a0 Browse to your KeePass Database and enter the password.\u00a0 KeePass Chrome will open the file and you can use the passwords as needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the onslaught of data breaches that happened in 2015 (about 65,000 according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report), INF presents this multi-part blog series about keeping your data safe in the digital age. Accessing Your Password Database on … Continue reading