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Answer by Johny Skovdal for Best way to share certain passwords stored in Keepass?

I work voluntarily on various IT related projects, where we are groups of people that share passwords, and the different groups all share their own KeePass databases via Dropbox. All users are then required to have a personal KeePass database wherein the key to the shared databases are stored. This allows us to have a very secure password on our shared databases, but also requires that the different users also use secure passwords for their private databases.

This process is then simplified further by this neat "trick" I found on the KeePass forum (slightly modified/improved):

  1. Create an entry in your personal database with the Password for the shared database
  2. On the advanced tab create a field named DbPath and with the value of where the shared database is located.
  3. Set the Url value to: cmd://"{APPDIR}\KeePass.exe""{s:DbPath}" -pw-enc:{PASSWORD_ENC}
  4. Now, when you want to open the shared database, mark the entry and press CTRL + U.

Hope you find this approach as useful as I did. :)

UPDATE

I do not know your reasoning behind choosing KeePass (I personally prefer it), but it sounds like your needs could be better met using LastPass that has sharing features built in.


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