Getting Started

Walk participants through the installation and/or launch process for either tool, depending on whether they are using a Portable Apps version already provided on USB (launching) or downloading a .exe directly from the developer website (installing). You are ready to move on once every participant has the initial screen up for creating their Master Password.
Explain that with KeePass/KeePassX, users can create one or more “databases” for storing their passwords – think of each database as an individual container holding many different passwords, and each container requires its own “master” password in order to be opened. Users might have multiple databases for different reasons, such as separate databases for passwords related to different projects, different kinds of user accounts, “work” and “personal” account passwords, etc.
A created database is saved individually as a .kdb file – these can be transferred to and re-opened on other devices with KeePass or KeePassX installed. One of the crucial features of KeePass is that the databases are encrypted. This means that even if someone else gets a copy of a user’s database .kdb file, they cannot open it without its Master Password.