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 ## Install packages ## Install packages
 +(skip this section on SKSLAN-managed workstations)
 - pass - pass
 - qtpass - qtpass
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 8. Select "Export" 8. Select "Export"
 9. Input your key's passphrase and press "OK." 9. Input your key's passphrase and press "OK."
 +
 +## Setting up QtPass
 +1. Open QtPass from the menu
 +2. It will complain that there is no password store initialised. This is fine. Press OK.
 +3. Check the box next to your newly generated key in the "Read Access Users" dialog that comes up next.
 +4. Press OK.
 +5. Accept the options in the "Configuration" window that pops up next with "OK."
 +
 +## Adding Passwords
 +1. Navigate to the main "QtPass" window
 +2. Click on the "Add password" icon in the top left.
 +3. Type in the domain name of the service you want to save a password for and press "OK."
 +4. Type the password to save in the "Password" box.
 +5. (Optional) Add your email or username in the larger unmarked box, preceded by something along the lines of `email: `.
 +6. Press "OK." to save the password.
 +
 +## Setting up the Firefox addon (PassFF)
 +(skip this section on SKSLAN-managed workstations)  
 +### Installing the Firefox part
 +1. Navigate to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/passff/
 +2. Click "Add to Firefox"
 +3. (Optional) Check "Allow extensions to run in private windows" box
 +4. Confirm with "Add"
 +5. (Optional) Check the "Pin extension to toolbar" box.
 +
 +### Installing the native addon
 +Instructions adapted from https://codeberg.org/PassFF/passff-host - manual installation instructions are available there also.
 +
 +1. Navigate to https://codeberg.org/PassFF/passff-host/releases
 +2. Click on the first "install_host_app.sh" link.
 +3. Open your file manager from the application menu, and go to Downloads
 +4. Right click on the background, and click "Open in Terminal" from the context menu.
 +5. Run the following commands (copy and paste, then press Enter): 
 +   1. `chmod +x install_host_app.sh`
 +   2. `./install_host_app.sh firefox`
 +6. Restart Firefox

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