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by AbacusAvenger 3260 days ago
I've used KeePassXC, and I think it's the best KeePass variant. I don't like stock KeePass because it's horribly slow under Mono (Linux/OS X). And I like but am not as satisfied with KeePassX because it lacks some features I like. From what I recall, the maintainers of KeePassXC got frustrated with the feature set and development pace of KeePassX, so they made their own fork. And they added nice things like TOTP code generation (i.e. Google Authenticator style) and YubiKey support.

I can't yet wean myself off of LastPass though, just because it's synced everywhere and is more reliable when doing form fills on websites. For example, KeePass and its variants don't have a concept of equivalent domains. For "equivalent domains" I should be prompted with the same lists of auto-fillable credentials, such as:

* youtube.com/google.com/gmail.com

* bing.com/hotmail.com/live.com/microsoft.com/msn.com/passport.net/windows.com

* apple.com/icloud.com

LastPass gets this right, but I sadly haven't seen any other password manager that does. I think there's an open issue with KeePassXC to address this but it's not merged or production ready.
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cyphar 3259 days ago
With KeePassXC you would do this by adding new entries for each alias and then reference the username and password values of the "base" entry. I believe the feature still isn't in a release, and the UX isn't there at the moment.

The problem is that they can't deviate from the official KeePass database format, so adding something like aliases requires hacks like the above.

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edraferi 3259 days ago
KeePass is moving to a new file format, KDBX 4 [1]. It includes Custom Headers feature that might enable plugins to implement URL Aliasing.

KeePassXC doesn't support KDBX yet, but they'r working on it[2].

[1] http://keepass.info/help/kb/kdbx_4.html

[2] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/148

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stinos 3259 days ago
With KeePass you create a new entry for the domain, then make it refer to the original to avoid duplication of user/password. But yes: allowing one single entry to be used for multiple domains would make much more sense.
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