Can multiple Windows users open a KeePass database?
KeePass does not natively support setting up multiple Windows user logins or Active Directory domain accounts as valid authentication for a single database. This prevents shared systems from allowing different users to open the file using their individual credentials.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1using a master key and key-file as authentication
- 2transfer the database onto a stick
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
Where this came up
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