My recent post will have showed you how to set up your password database and get started with adding your user names and passwords. As promised I am now looking closer at the functionality of Password Safe with regards to using it to encrypt and secure the multitude of passwords that rule your life.
Before you get started, there are a number of options that you should configure. Go to Tools>Options to bring up a dialogue box with a range of tabs. You need to first tweak the settings of your Password Policy
A password policy describes the rules that are used to create a password—the letters, letter cases, length, and any special characters that are required. You can see the settings to the left here that can be configured.
If you are using Password Safe for work passwords for example, they may have certain criteria that you need to consider when configuring your password. You will need to set them appropriately.
The password history, also accessed through Manage>Options is worth looking at. You can configure it to remember the last however many passwords you want (ie you can set it to remember 3, 5 and so on). It will also record the date the password was changed. Some organisations may require this sort of information to be kept for audit purposes.
While the actual encryption part doesn’t look too difficult, it seems to be a bit buggy - will actually ask Mike Nodding at work on Monday what I am doing wrong - but as far as I can figure out, these are the steps you follow (I tested on something I wasn’t worried about losing).
If you also check out the Auto Type entry function which is pretty cool - open your web page you want to update your password with and use Auto Type and it will automatically populate your username and password. I have also tried this at the front of a site, to login and it works like a charm 
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