How to integrate KeePassX into Firefox

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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Hello guys,

please take a moment and check if you could help me with this one.

Im running Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa and I want to integrate password manager into Firefox as I did in Windows.
On windows Im using KeePass2 with PassIFox plugin. Everything works and when I visit a site that I have account on, it automatically fills my login info and logs me in.

On Mint, I went for cross-platform version of KeePass named KeePassX. It reads my password database, everything works, but I cant get that Firefox integration up and running.

Has anyone solved this issue? Thank you

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Keepassx has no plugin infrastructure so no plugins.

You can use keepass on Linux though.

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Okay, so the issue was Linux does not have up-to-date repository with latest KeePass2 version in it.

If anyone encounters this problem, the way to fix it is:
- uninstall KeePass2 via software manager in your Linux
- go to this page http://keepass.info/download.html and scroll down to Contributed/Unofficial KeePass Packages where Linux packages are listed.
- then, follow the link (for ubuntu based distros: https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/17d1bd26/)
- manually add repository and install latest keepass from command line

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:jtaylor/keepass
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install keepass2

  • add keepasshttp.plgx plugin from here https://github.com/pfn/keepasshttp/ to a folder where your KeePass2 is installed
  • to find out, type "whereis keepass2" in command line (mine was in /usr/lib/keepass2/)
  • open KeePass2 and log into your password database.
  • check if the plugin was correctly loaded in Tools -> Plugins - there should be KeePassHttp listed in version 2.21 or above
  • install Firefox plugin PassIFox and let the browser restart

  • open Firefox and click CONNECT button in top right to pair it with your database in KeePass2

  • DONE :-)

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Keepass, Keepass2 and keepassx and keepassx 2 are four different things!

Furthermost is keepass not the same as keepassx! They use the same database file, thus are compatible but they are different projects!