This guide will take you through the process of adding a password to your SecureSafe manually, as well as generating strong passwords using SecureSafe's password generator.
Please follow the steps outlined below to add a password to your SecureSafe password manager.
Please note: The images used in this guide stem from the SecureSafe web application interface. If you are adding a password using a different interface, some menus might differ slightly.
- Log in to your SecureSafe account.
- From the menu in the left sidebar, select Passwords.
- From the Passwords category panel, click Add password.
- In the Add password window resulting from this, populate the fields accordingly. Start with adding a name for your password in the Title field.
- Next, add the web address of the relevant login page you want to add a password for into the Website (login) field. Alternatively, you can paste a copied web address into this field.
- Add your username into the Username field. This is the username that is associated with the login page defined in the previous step.
- In order to add a Password to this login record, you can either create a password yourself (a.), or generate a password (b., c.), using the integrated SecureSafe password generator:
- Type a strong password into the Password field.
- Or, generate a random password by performing the following actions:
- Click Generate password. In the window that displays, select the Random password generation type.
- View the random password that was created by the generator.
- By clicking the refresh button, you can generate a new random password, should you wish to do so.
- The password Strength indicator will allow you to ensure that the password created in the previous steps is strong.
- The length slider allows you to lengthen the generated password to any length up to 32 characters long.
- Optionally, to customize your generated password, you can select and unselect the following elements:
- lowercase only
- use special characters
- use numbers
- Confirm by clicking Done.
- Or, generate a memorizable password by performing the following actions:
- Click Generate password. In the window that displays, select the Memorizable password generation type.
- View the memorizable password that was created by the generator.
- By clicking the refresh button, you can generate a new memorizable password, should you wish to do so.
- The password Strength indicator will allow you to ensure that the password created in the previous steps is strong.
- Confirm by clicking Done.
- Reveal or hide your entered or generated password by clicking this toggle switch.
- The password Strength indicator will allow you to ensure that the password created in the previous steps is strong.
- Optionally, you can add your password to a password category by either:
- choosing an existing category,
- or creating a new password category by clicking the Add category button. This option displays a window containing a single field, which you please populate with the name for your new category.
- The Comment field allows you to optionally add a comment about your password.
- Confirm by clicking Done.