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davy_crockett

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Registered: 2015-10-21

Posts: 75

KeepassXC and using a database stored on a network location or cloud

Hi,

I'm running Arch Linux and have KeepassXC installed; although I can't access a database installed on a network or cloud location on Arch Linux (such as OneDrive, Gdrive or ProtonDrive) whereas I can on Windows and Android. Is this a currently known issue, and is there a workaround that actually uses the network location rather than a local copy? The reason is so I can have my Windows, Android and Linux all using the one KeepassXC database.
Furthermore, is KeepassXC better than kwallet for Arch Linux? Which do you prefer using, and should I switch to KeepassXC from Kwallet on Linux?
Also I can think of a number of improvements for KeepassXC, for example being able to store credit/debit card information in it, and GPG keys would be good features to have that it doesn't at the moment. Are there any plans to implement these, or how do I go about suggesting these for a future release of keepassXC? I think there's a way to store SSH keys in it although I'm not familiar with how to do that, nor do I have a need to at this present moment.

Skidout

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Registered: 2023-05-26

Posts: 37

Re: KeepassXC and using a database stored on a network location or cloud

You could make a script that uses wget or something like that and save the file to /tmp/keepassxc/ and then open that database in KeepassXC from there. As for the other stuff, that's already possible. You might be using the entries in an unconventional way, but there's nothing stopping you from using it to store credit/debit/PGP/SSH keys.

mukl

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2008-01-30

Posts: 55

Re: KeepassXC and using a database stored on a network location or cloud

I'm syncing my db with syncthing, but I guess nextcloud client would also work.

I'm also storing cc info it. cc-number as user name, all other info as custom attribute.

The code is hosted on github. You can open an issue there.

Ferdinand

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From: Norway

Registered: 2020-01-02

Posts: 338

Re: KeepassXC and using a database stored on a network location or cloud

You can store your database on a cloud service and mount it with rclone. These cloud services are supported:

$ rclone help backends
All rclone backends:

  alias        Alias for an existing remote
  acd          Amazon Drive
  azureblob    Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  b2           Backblaze B2
  box          Box
  crypt        Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
  cache        Cache a remote
  chunker      Transparently chunk/split large files
  combine      Combine several remotes into one
  compress     Compress a remote
  drive        Google Drive
  dropbox      Dropbox
  fichier      1Fichier
  filefabric   Enterprise File Fabric
  ftp          FTP
  gcs          Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
  gphotos      Google Photos
  hasher       Better checksums for other remotes
  hdfs         Hadoop distributed file system
  hidrive      HiDrive
  http         HTTP
  internetarchive Internet Archive
  jottacloud   Jottacloud
  koofr        Koofr, Digi Storage and other Koofr-compatible storage providers
  local        Local Disk
  mailru       Mail.ru Cloud
  mega         Mega
  memory       In memory object storage system.
  netstorage   Akamai NetStorage
  onedrive     Microsoft OneDrive
  opendrive    OpenDrive
  oos          Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
  pcloud       Pcloud
  premiumizeme premiumize.me
  putio        Put.io
  qingstor     QingCloud Object Storage
  s3           Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, Alibaba, Ceph, China Mobile, Cloudflare, ArvanCloud, DigitalOcean, Dreamhost, Huawei OBS, IBM COS, IDrive e2, IONOS Cloud, Liara, Lyve Cloud, Minio, Netease, RackCorp, Scaleway, SeaweedFS, StackPath, Storj, Tencent COS, Qiniu and Wasabi
  seafile      seafile
  sftp         SSH/SFTP
  sharefile    Citrix Sharefile
  sia          Sia Decentralized Cloud
  smb          SMB / CIFS
  storj        Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage
  tardigrade   Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage
  sugarsync    Sugarsync
  swift        OpenStack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
  union        Union merges the contents of several upstream fs
  uptobox      Uptobox
  webdav       WebDAV
  yandex       Yandex Disk
  zoho         Zoho

To see more info about a particular backend use:
  rclone help backend <name>
$ 

I use a simple script that I autostart with my DE to mount:

#!/bin/bash

while true; do
    # Check to see if there is an internet connection by pinging primary DNS
    if ping -q -c 1 -W 1 1.1.1.1 &> /dev/null; then
        # Connected, mount the drive and break the loop
        rclone --vfs-cache-mode writes mount "OneDrive Private": ~/Cloud/OneDrive-Private &
        break
    else
        # Not connected, wait for one second and check again
        sleep 1
    fi
done

This can probably be more elegant as a systemd user unit or something, but this does the job for me.

Also KeepassXC works like a charm as a SSH agent; when the database is open I go right in, and when the database is closed so is the SSH host.

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