I’ve mentioned my usage of KeePass and my ApexFlex and my FlexSecure on a few occasions here on the Forum, I’ve provided some light information around it but I thought I should expand on that a little.
A YouTube video (linked below) will do most of the heavy lifting for me here, I’ll just add in the Implantee perspective
As with most things, there are many approaches, but here is what I suggest and how I did it.
Thank you for the cool guide!
I personally use a similar setup as well, via
KeePassXC (XC is the most modern and recent version, the original KeePass only runs well on Windows, and KeePassX has been abandoned) from https://keepassxc.org/ on my Windows and Linux machines. Also I can vouch for the NFC code of KeePassXC, having written it.
I use KeePass2, but the UI is so utterly borked I’ve been intending to switch away from it. But if I can plug it into my cyborg bits I may want to keep playing with it a bit longer.
Wait… does this mean that there’s a version of KeePass for linux with a UI that isn’t utterly borked? I might just stay with KeePass after all.
Mmmm. Smooth as butter. Drop in replacement on my existing databases. It’s even in the debian repos for easy install. Thank you so much. And I haven’t even plugged it into my arm yet.
Yes! Nowadays I even recommend people using KeePassXC on Windows as well, it has long surpassed the original one in UI/UX, stability, code quality and even security audits
Yeah, with KeePass2 it would crash if I hit the Super key, which is the key I use to switch windows. And tabbing would get stuck in a loop in the menus and skip selecting the actual entries, so I’d have to click on them. And the mouse handling would drop, for my stylus and virtual mouse and everything, and I wouldn’t be able to click on anything. So I’d have to search (maybe the search bar is in a good mood otherwise I hafta use the Find feature, but not via ctrl+F because that was broken too, but by tabbing the menubar to the find and then I’d have to search, which sometimes would break, but if I got it that would let me select my password entry and then if Enter doesn’t feel like working today I’d have to go to the main menubar again to “edit entry” in order to open the dialogue which would appear half off the screen (I managed to do without the bottom half of the window, or the right side. They’re not as important. There are other ways of saving besides the save button.) and then I’d have to tab around and you can’t really see what you’re tab selected on because the outline is borked in many places so you have to count the number of times you hit tab to know what you’re seleced on… catches breath… And there’s still a couple more steps to go through before I get my password out.
TL;DR I very much wanted to replace keepass2 with something GUI free.
So, given the popularity of this post, I might have to make a tutorial on using your Apex, FlexSecure, or Java Card as your windows login natively through Microsoft Entra ID.
While not free, (you need to own a domain and have some Microsoft subscriptions) it doesn’t require any third-party software and can be used with all sorts of other apps and connectors.
Source: I set up and use my Apex Flex as a access device for a secure government contractor facility. I wave my hand and enter a pin to log in to any PC or to open any of our secure doors, much to the amazement of all the old engineer security types.
