Monday, March 2, 2015

How to place Firefox/Thunderbird password manager files on TrueCrypt volume?

I don't want enter master password in Firefox/Thunderbird everytime. I've got an idea to place the password manager files (key3.db and signons.sqlite -- or just one of them) on the TrueCrypt volume. I don't want to encrypt whole Firefox/Thunderbird profile, because I will lost the ability of diff backups (e.g. Previous versions in Windows) of the profile.


I have tried to use symlinks for that however it did not work. (Firefox after moving key3.db to a TrueCrypt volume and replacing it with symlink did not show any password.)


Can I specify somewhere that key3.db or signons.sqlite are located elsewhere?


UPDATE: When I would encrypt whole drive, then I will have to encrypt whole backups -- that I do not want to -- if something wrong happens to me, nobody can access the backups; or I can just forgot master password to backups. Currently, I am backuping everything unencrypted and also the small TrueCrypt file with passwords, keys, etc. -- if I loose the password to this TrueCrypt file, just passwords will be lost, but not my data.


CLARIFICATION: I do not want to backup passwords unencrypted.

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