New Installation
Upgrade from a previous version
New Installation
Install/Verify the Java Runtime Environment :
Make sure you have java runtime environment installed in your machine.
You should have Java 1.4.1 or above. Type java -version in the command
prompt, you should get something similar to the following.
java version "1.4.2_03"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_03-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_03-b02, mixed mode)
If java runtime is not installed in your machine, download it from http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html
and following the instruction to install it on your platform.
Install Password Manager :
Unzip the passwordmanager.zip , which will create passwordmanager folder
and all files will be put underneath this directory. The following files
are distributed with this zip file.
passwordmanager.jar |
This is the application package. |
lib |
This directory contains all the libraries needed by
the Password Manager |
readme.html |
This file |
pwm.ico |
Icon for Password Manager |
Run PasswordManager :
Setup is done. Double click on the passwordmanager.jar to bringup the
application. (or) type java -jar passwordmanager.jar from
the install directory.
Upgrade from previous
version.
For all other versions :
- Take a backup of all the data files which you are using to a different
location.
- Unzip the passwordmanager.zip to the same directory structure as you
did in previous version. ( i.e if you have c:\passwordmanager directory
created by version 1.0, unzip the passwordmanager.zip to c:\ which will
overwrite all the files inside c:\passwordmanager )
From Version 2.x to Version 3.x
- Step 1 : Take a backup of all the data files which you are
using to a different location.
- Step 2 : Take a backup of your previous version's install directory.
( i.e if you have installed previous version under c:\passwordmanager,
take a backup of the whole directory. This step is needed because of
the next step, where you have to export your *.pwm file to a text file.
)
- Step 3 : Important : Since
a new encryption ( BlowfishJ is used in this release ), the *.pwm file
of previous version cannot be directly opened from this version. Instead,
take a export of the *.pwm file using your previous version of password
manager first. Follow the steps below to take an export.
- Launch your passwordmanager V2.x application
- Open your *.pwm data file
- Go to File Menu -> Export Menu -> To Text
- Click on 'Password' and 'Additional Attributes' checkboxes. Make
sure 'All Rows' radio button is selected. Make sure Account Name,UserId,
Password, URL, Notes, Category and Additional Attributes are selected.
- Click on Export, and give a file name and directory location where
the text file needs to be stored [ Note : This file will have all
the information in a clear text format including your password,
make sure you delete this file once you import it to the new version
of password manager. ]
- Step 4: Unzip the passwordmanager.zip to the same directory
structure as you did in previous version. ( i.e if you have c:\passwordmanager
directory created by version 2.x, unzip the passwordmanager.zip to c:\
which will overwrite all the files inside c:\passwordmanager )
- Step 5 : Now launch the new version of passwordmanager. Follow
the steps below to import the records which you exported as mentioned
above.
- Launch your passwordmanager V3.x application
- Click on 'New File'
- Go to File Menu -> Import Menu -> Select the text file which
you exported before.
- This should've imported all your records.
- Click on 'Save As' button from the toolbar, and save this new
*.pwm file , which will be encrypted using the BlowfishJ encryption
algorithm.
- Note : In your exported text file of V2.x application, If you
have any commas in a field [say for e.g. notes field had a comma in
it], make sure you enclose the notes field within double quotes, by
editing the exported *.txt file. In V3.x this issue is fixed, if any
field has a comma in it, it will be automatically enclosed within double
quotes during export.
From Version 1.0 to Version 1.1
- Take a backup of all the data files which you are using to a different
location.
- Unzip the passwordmanager.zip to the same directory structure as you
did in previous version. ( i.e if you have c:\passwordmanager directory
created by version 1.0, unzip the passwordmanager.zip to c:\ which will
overwrite all the files inside c:\passwordmanager )
Rename all your old data files to *.pwm. From version 1.1, only *.pwm
will be the standard extension for the data files.
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