Using DomainBrain to Manage Credentials in the Cloud

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We have over a dozen different domains that we maintain for client applications at SEO Logic, and in the past, we've used an Excel spreadsheet (shudder) on a shared TimeCapsule disk to keep track of the SSH, database, application, and control panel URLs. This means that whenever I need to access information about one of the applications, I have to wait approximately 12 years for Excel to start up and open the spreadsheet.

This week I discovered a tool called DomainBrain, which seems to have been designed to solve my problem exactly. It lets you track FTP, CMS, and database passwords for any collection of domains, while allowing you to configure additional sets of fields for custom use (e.g. SSH). The application starts up almost immediately and so far has proved to be a great tool for the sort of tracking that we need to do on a daily basis.

The only challenge that we faced was keeping the information in sync between multiple computers. DropBox to the rescue! Here's how we enabled the DomainBrain data file to be shared in a magical DropBox folder:

$ ln -s ~/Downloads/DropBox/DomainBrain ~/Library/Application\ Support/DomainBrain

Simple, and incredibly useful. Be sure to check out the application and see if it solves your tracking problems for you as well as it does ours.

::Published by Corey Ehmke on 09/30/2010 in General Application and Web Development / Tips for Developers

Comments

alex
alex
10/06/2010
i does not work for me on snowleopard. My Dropbox-App is in /Applications/DomainBrain for all Users i created the Folder ~/Downloads/DropBox/DomainBrain on my Dropbox i create a folder /Support/DomainBrain cause nothing happens
alex
alex
10/06/2010
now all the path is corrected.. - its a error from DomainBrain: The file couldn't be opened because it isn't in the correct format! The file might be corrupted, truncated, or in an unexpented format. in my Library is a symlink to the dropbox-folder and the correct file: DomainBrain_Data.brain best regards - alex
Sandy Wood
Sandy Wood
10/27/2010
The link for DomainBrain that you show actually links to a search engine. The correct URL is http://www.domainbrainapp.com/ Thanks for this cool suggestion!
Corey Ehmke
Corey Ehmke
04/14/2011
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