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title: "KeePass + FolderShare = Store your passwords securely and share them at the same time"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/16/keepass-foldershare-store-your-passwords-securely-and-share.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/16/keepass-foldershare-store-your-passwords-securely-and-share.html"
published: "2006-02-16T21:15:00"
updated: "2006-02-16T21:15:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I've been using KeePass for the past month or so and I love it. It stored all my passwords in encrypted form and I use FolderShare to automatically synchronize my passwords with all my machines. I only need to remember…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# KeePass + FolderShare = Store your passwords securely and share them at the same time

By Roy Osherove February 16, 2006 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 16, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

I've been using [KeePass](http://keepass.sourceforge.net/) for the past month or so and I love it.

It stored all my passwords in encrypted form and I use [FolderShare](http://www.foldershare.com/) to automatically synchronize my passwords with all my machines. I only need to remember one unique password - the one to open KeePass. the rest is inside.

It's got security features as far as the eye can see. Here are some:

- [For full security information read this page.](http://keepass.sourceforge.net/infosec.php)
- Password are saved in memory in encrypted form. you can make it "copy" a password and once, pasted, it automatically deletes it from memory (you need to copy it again).
- The application can be automatically locked when minimized or after an amount of time
- It can use a Disk-based key file for extra security - meaning you can only unlock it if you have the physical USB key with you connected to the machine.
- It helps you generate good passwords with nice "randomizer" screens to customize the output.
- You can make passwords expire after a certain period
- etc..

It's free, and open source. Oh, and it's a nice UI too!

[Check it out!](http://keepass.sourceforge.net/)

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/