Steps to Set Up KeePass

Scope of this Post

The following instructions are for how to set up the KeePass password manager on your Windows PCs, iPhones, and Android devices.  This post also covers the one-time process of creating a password database and putting it in Google Drive.

If you are hoping to use KeePass on Linux or MacOS, I haven't done it myself, but you might have success using KeePassXC or one of the KeePass packages that has made it into Mac OS X and several Linux distribution software repositories.  See this page for download options.  Also, there's the option of running KeePass under Mono on your MacOSX/Linux system.

If you use the following steps, you'll be able to access your always-up-to-date password database from all of your devices that you've installed KeePass on.

This post assumes you are comfortable using KeePass Plugins and also browser plugins which make using KeePass extremely convenient.  Future posts will cover if you want to be paranoid and trust only KeePass itself and Google.

The most notable links, folder locations, and component names are bolded.

Note that the version of KeePass we'll be using is KeePass2, so don't be afraid when folders or apps talk about KeePass2.