Re: [Passwordsafe-linux] Compiling for Linux

[Saurav G. <sa...@gm...>]

The dependencies are listed from a Ubuntu/Debian perspective.  You must be having the equivalent headers and libraries required to build it.  Also, the "release" target actually builds "unicoderelease".  Anyway, it built for you, so great!

To build the help file, run "(g)make help".  Copy the help.zip produced to /usr/share/doc/passwordsafe/help/.

Perhaps I misunderstood you when you asked "Does it auto-fill username and password in web forms?".  PasswordSafe is not integrated directly with Firefox or any other browser.  It doesn't automatically sense that it has to auto-fill web forms.  When you want it to auto-fill, you have to select the corresponding entry in PasswordSafe, right-click and select "Auto Type".  PasswordSafe will then simulate the keystrokes for your username/password (or however you may have set up autotype for that entry or that password db).  That causes the web form to fill up without you having to enter the form entries manually.  That is all that autotype does.  In this respect, PasswordSafe might be different from other browser-based web-form automation solutions.

However, there is a (yet unimplemented in Linux) feature called "Browse to URL and autotype" that causes the default browser to navigate to a site, wait for the navigation to complete, and then perform autotype.  But you still have to initiate the process.  PasswordSafe will not watch your browser and automatically kick in when a form needs to be auto-filled.  And once again, this feature is currently only implemented on Windows.

PasswordSafe has limited support for importing passwords from other applications.  Firefox and kWallet are not among them.  But if you can export your passwords from those applications as comma or tab separated text or XML files, you can import them into PasswordSafe.

The panel icon, if I understand correctly what you mean by that, is problematic on some platforms, notably those running Unity.  It mostly works on other platforms.  It should be green or red, depending on whether you have the db locked or open.   Its black when you don't have any password db loaded.  Right-clicking on it should bring up a context menu.  If it doesn't seem to work, try to position your mouse pointer such that the tip of it is over a non-transparent part of the icon.

If you just close the main window, passwordsafe (with default settings) just hides the window but keeps running in the background.  You can "Restore" the window from the tray icon (panel icon).  Its a feature, not a bug :-)

Saurav.