How to Open Keepass (locates in vault AppVM) in a disposable AppVM

[PR]

Hello,

I tried to open my Keepass file which is located in my vault app vm in a disposale AppVM.

I am able to launch Keepass from my vault AppVM:

[user@vault ~] qvm-run '$dispvm' keepass

this opens up keepass in a new disposable App VM.
How can I pass my keepass file to this AppVM, so that it will be opened.

I tried...

[user@vault ~] qvm-run '$dispvm' keepass /home/user/Documents/MyKeepass.kdbx

... but this didn't worked.

Does this approach offers any additional benefits then running applications within vault?

- P

[u+q...@bestemt.no]

'PR' via qubes-users <qubes...@googlegroups.com> [2017-05-16 11:01 +0200]:

> I am able to launch Keepass from my vault AppVM:
>
> [user@vault ~] qvm-run '$dispvm' keepass
>
> this opens up keepass in a new disposable App VM.
> How can I pass my keepass file to this AppVM, so that it will be opened.

"qvm-open-in-dvm path/to/file.kdbx" to open in a new DispVM

"qvm-open-in-vm vmname path/to/file.kdbx" to open existing VM.

But why would you want to open your Keepass file in another VM? You can
copy any text (username, password, ...) from one VM's clipboard to the
Qubes clipboard with ctrl+shift+c and move it from there to another VM's
clipboard with ctrl+shift+v.

--
ubestemt

[cooloutac]

I don't think it does man. But thats just my opinion. I don't see any benefit to opening the vault in a disposable. Just use the default vault setup and make sure that you don't do anything but use keepassx in your vault.

In fact I would trust the disposable vm less then your vault vm. I've changed to only use disposable vm for doing things untrusted now. But most would probably disagree with me about that, I'm overly paranoid.