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Is there any plan for a release of pwsafe that will support version 3 data? The current version cannot read or write files from a Linux desktop installation of pws, version 3.

I've compiled pws (from http://www.pwsafe.de/) in the scratchbox (using Qt4) and installed it on my N810. It runs, but it claims that the unlock passphrase is always incorrect. A native or "Hildonized" version would be much better.

A work around that I did:

Password Gorilla can read PW Safe files (2 and 3). http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/Gorilla/ PWG has an option to safe in version 2 format. Save in V2, then copy the password file to the NXXX and open with Maemo PWS. You will loose the v3 fields, but the main ones that matter are there.

HTH

Didjit

Thanks for mentioning Gorilla. I just tried it and am pleasantly surprised. I needed something to be able to edit my PWSafe files on my PC.

The link to the updated version gives a 404 error.

Or is that a security trick? <g>

Is there any way that pwsafe can be set up to generate a good safe and easy to remember (pronounceable) password for you automatically (say, by calling agp from the command line and passing it onto the password field for you)?

I suppose this is more of a feature request since it doesn't look like it can do it.

I'd like to have something like this.
So dbus-interface to Password Safe.

Are people still using this app? I am.. Is the developer still interested in updating it? I hope so, as there as a nasty bug which can cause the app to delete data - it has happened to me several times. Actually there may be more than one.

If you are entering new data and the timeout is activated, requiring you to enter the master password again, and you either (1) exit the program without entering the password, or (2) enter the password and then exit the program, thinking your newly-entered data will automatically be saved, IT WON'T. You MUST manually save before exiting - normally the program DOES auto-save before exiting, and so this can be very bad - lulling you into thinking it will catch unsaved data, then not saving it in this specific situation.

Solution: if you use this program, SAVE MANUALLY EVERY TIME YOU ENTER DATA before exiting. Otherwise you will lose data, sooner or later.

There appears to be another bug related to the master password timeout. I have had a situation where I have been entering new data, and the password timeout activated. Upon entering the password and going back into the program, there was NO option to save my earlier-entered data. The only options on the menu were 'New', 'Open...', and 'Open Last' as if it had been newly started without any file to open at all. And yet I had just been entering data on an open file and it is even still displayed! So this was very bad too, as I there was no way for me to save my data even though I had remembered to do it manually, and I lost all new changes.

Solution: Manually save your data not only before exiting the program, but before the master password timeout has had a chance to activate - which can be tricky, since the timeout is quite short.

I have also noticed that the application sometimes won't accept my password after the timeout, even though I am entering it correctly, and I have to kill the app. So there is something funky about the master password timeout, so basically make sure that your data is in a complete saved state before the timeout ever activates.

What's the bug number in bugs.maemo.org?

There doesn't appear to be one.

You need to file a bug report so Andre can close it as "Fixed in WP8"