[SOLVED] KeepassXC requires root when using Yubikey

[Anonymous]

I’m running the latest version of AntiX and for some reason, when I want to use KeepassXC with my Yubikey (Challenge and Response function), the only way I can use it is by opening KeepassXC as root. It runs as expected as a normal user in MX Linux on my desktop.

It’s clearly a USB permission issue, but I don’t know what to do to make it work as a normal user like it does in MX. Any suggestions.

Thank you.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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Showing my camera card , with mistakes even. But it shows permissions are mine.

harry@biker:~
$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs           389M  648K  388M   1% /run
/dev/sda1        15G  8.2G  5.8G  59% /
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           777M   25M  752M   4% /run/shm
harry@biker:~
$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs           389M  664K  388M   1% /run
/dev/sda1        15G  8.2G  5.8G  59% /
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           777M   25M  752M   4% /run/shm
/dev/sdb1       3.7G  3.6M  3.7G   1% /media/sdb1-usb-Generic_Storage_
harry@biker:~
$ cd /dev/sdb
bash: cd: /dev/sdb: Not a directory
harry@biker:~
$ cd /dev/sdb1
bash: cd: /dev/sdb1: Not a directory
harry@biker:~
$ cd /media/sdb1-usb-Generic_Storage_/
harry@biker:/media/sdb1-usb-Generic_Storage_
$ ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 harry harry 4096 Feb 21 17:21 DCIM
harry@biker:/media/sdb1-usb-Generic_Storage_

Just showing you how to check for permissions listed first.

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[Anonymous]

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curiosity got the best of me…

websearch
keypassxc yubikey

first search result:

https://keepassxc.org/docs/#faq-yubikey-incompatible

Q. When I secure my database in KeePass2 with a YubiKey, I can’t open it in KeePassXC (or vice versa), why?

A. Due to the fact that our YubiKey implementation differs from KeeChallenge’s, they are inherently incompatible (see question above). If you need compatibility between KeePass2 and KeePassXC, you cannot use YubiKeys at the moment.

Not an exact enswer, but you get the idea…

[Anonymous]

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https://github.com/cornelinux/yubikey-luks

Yubikey for LUKS

This package is inspired and based on https://github.com/tfheen/ykfde.

This enables you to use the yubikey as 2FA for LUKS. The Password you enter is used as challenge for the yubikey

The keyscript allows to boot the machine with either the password and the Yubikey or with a normal password from any key slot.

luksSuspend/luksResume integration is inspired and based on https://github.com/zhongfu/ubuntu-luks-suspend

https://packages.debian.org/sid/admin/yubikey-luks

[Anonymous]

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Thanks for the info. I actually got it working just now by simply giving user permissions to the device following the procedure outlined here: here

[Anonymous]

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congrats, and thanks for reporting the solution !

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