Auto-enter master password in Keepass on launch

Question

I use Keepass only for unimportant sites and it's set up to autostart with Windows. Entering password every time is quite annoying.

Of course I can use something like recorded macro. But is there any more usable approach?

Answer 1

Create shortcut with following command line options:

KeePass.exe "C:\My Documents\MyDatabase.kdb" -pw:password

"C:\My Documents\MyDatabase.kdb" - The database file location is passed as argument. Only one database file is allowed. If the path contains a space, it must be enclosed in quotes (").

-pw:password - Passwords can be passed using the -pw: option. In order to pass 'abc' as password, you would add the following argument to the command line: -pw:abc. Note that there must be no space between the ':' and the password. If your password contains a space, you must enclose it in quotes. For example: -pw:"my secret password".

The -minimize command line argument makes KeePass start up minimized.

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Answer 2

I first create a new entry with my Keepass password with the URL

cmd://"cmd.exe" /k echo Register-ScheduledTask -Action (New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute '{APPDIR}\Keepass.exe' -Argument '"{DB_NAME}" -pw-enc:{PASSWORD_ENC}' -WorkingDirectory '{DB_DIR}') -Trigger (New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -AtLogon) -TaskName 'KeePass'

That way when I press CtrlU (which opens up the URL it pops up with the command line I need in to execute in PowerShell

The Task Scheduler is used instead of shell:startup as there's a limit to the number of characters that may be placed in a Windows Shortcut where PowerShell does not impose any hard limit.