Moving from Figaro's Password Manager (FPM) to KeePassX

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Friday, May 28. 2010

Moving from Figaro's Password Manager (FPM) to KeePassX

I'm one of those people who actually keeps different passwords for every site and service I use. So far I'm up to over 400 passwords, so I'm dependent on a password manager. For a long, long time I have used Figaro's Password Manager (FPM) (and KedPM and most recently FPM2 as continuations of FPM), but now that I have an Android smartphone on which I can browse without wanting to die, I've been itching to get access to my passwords on that. I noticed that KeePassDroid was available, and that KeePassX would work on my desktop. I just had to get from FPM's password export format to one of KeePass's import formats. It turns out that nobody had made that particular leap before (or hadn't shared their conversion script).

Thus... I bring you the FPM to KeePass converter. A straightfoward Python script licensed under the GPL v3 that does a passable job of converting an FPM XML export to a KeePass 1.x or 2.x XML import file. It worked for me, and that's all that I needed; but maybe it will work for you, too.

Posted by Dan Scott in Android, Python at 15:14 | Comments (6)

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Hello.
I am interested in using your FPM-to-KeepassX converter, it would be a time saver for me, but I do not know how to download it from Gitorious.
Would you happen to have it somewhere accessible with only a click to download the file?
(I tried getting it from Gitorious, but it looks like they need a public ssh key and sounds complicated.)
#1 DJ on 2010-07-26 19:41 (Reply)
Ah, certainly; in Gitorious you have to click "Source Tree" and then browse to the file you want to display, and then finally click on the "Raw Blob Data" link on the top right. It's far from obvious, don't feel bad!

Here's a direct link to download the file in question: http://gitorious.net/fpm-to-keepass-converter/fpm-to-keepass-converter/blobs/raw/master/fpm2keepass.py
#1.1 Dan Scott (Homepage) on 2010-07-26 22:24 (Reply)
Thanks for the quick response Dan.
I was able to download the file from Gitorious following your instructions.
#1.1.1 DJ on 2010-07-27 17:27 (Reply)
Hey Dan,

What's your strategy for synchronizing the pw database across multiple machines?
#2 Bill Erickson on 2010-08-31 15:25 (Reply)
Strategy?! It's really simple: my laptop, which goes almost everywhere with me, is the master (the only one that adds new accounts) and pushes out to the bzr repo. From anywhere else (cellphone or temporarily hijacked Windows box or what have you), I treat the downloaded copy as effectively a read-only database.
#2.1 Dan Scott on 2010-08-31 21:44 (Reply)
I was a bit confused at first but in case someone is having troubles with migrating from kedpm these are the steps I followed:

1. install fpm2 and use the export to xml option
2. use that file as the input of this tool
3. use the output file of this tool with the import from keepass xml option in keepassx
4. play

finally, thanks for the tool, you just save me a lot of time
#3 juan on 2012-03-06 12:13 (Reply)

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