Using Techniques I discovered we are going to make a password database using EagleFiler. These are the things I want this database to be.
- Secure
- Able to store basic set of data with more able to be added as neeed
- Easy to use
After the break We’ll get started.
The first thing to do after we decide to do this is decide on what basic set of data we want in password database. Since we are storing passwords that means we are storing them for use with online services of some kind. These are the kinds of data that we need to store:
- Service name
- Service URL
- Username or user id
- Password
If you need more stored feel free to add your own pieces of information that you want to store.
We want this to be a secure database, and since we are using EagleFiler, we will need an encrypted sparse bundle disk Image. I already showed you how to do this here. You might want to put an alias to the disk image on your desktop, so that you can get to it.
The next thing you will need to do is create the form as an rtf document. Use any tool you want. Just put it in the stationery section as I showed you in this post.
Now you will need to open the encrypted sparsebundle, and double click the .eflibrary file. This will start EagleFiler with the encrypted bundle’s library database. Now to add a new records go to the file >> new record >> name_of_password_file. This will add the record. Edit the file with the information you wish to store. When you have a few more records then you might want to make a smart folder that shows only those records with password, or whatever is common text in your password files.
While not really intended to be a massive relational database, EagleFiler can neatly do small database jobs. You just need the database in some semblance of an order, and a smart folder. Now go out there and build your own databases with EagleFiler.
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