Years ago, before the craze of Web 2.0 most of us had just few accounts in services like Yahoo and we did not have much trouble with memorizing them. But now with the growing number of social services, It’s becoming more difficult to keep track of all your passwords. For years I had a simple remedy for this problem, that is, using one single password for all the services. Nevertheless, It was too risky and if somebody could find the password of one of my accounts he could access to the rest too (a similar mistake made by one of Twitter staff led to the leakage of confidential documents of this company.)

A few months ago, I started to use my iPod Touch and a security application to organize my passwords. It was a good application and I loved it but after a hard reset the application refused to work and discarded all my passwords. Fortunately, I had a backup of all my passwords somewhere else but I couldn’t confide my iPod Touch anymore.

KeePassX - A Light-weight Password Manager for Ubuntu

Today I was searching for a good password management software for Ubuntu and I found a light-weight program dubbed KeePassX. I installed it on my Ubuntu machine and after a few minutes I started to love it. It simply has all the features I want from a password management software. It stores all my passwords in one single encrypted database which makes it easy to make backup from it. I also can easily create groups and organize my passwords into groups. However, my favorite feature is the Password Generator. KeePassX can generate very lengthy and strong passwords that even a bad-ass hacker will have trouble to decrypt it.

KeePassX Password Generator

How to install KeePassX on Ubuntu 9.10

KeePassX is very light-weight and it shouldn’t take more than few seconds to get downloaded and installed:

sudo apt-get install keepassx

If you are in Ubuntu 9.10, you can also use the Software Center to install this app.