Password manager recommendation
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Hi all! I'm thinking on start using a password manager. It starts to be super complicated to remember everything and I'm super tempted to start storing my passwords in text files... :-O :rolleyes: This said, 1. Do you use them? 2. Do you trust them? 3. Which one do you use? 4. Why? As always, thank you very much! :beer:
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1. yes and NO. Yes at work because shared. no for personal. 2. Yes and No. 3. Keepass. 4. someone else likes it. I personally use a three stage password depending upon the site. a.I have two passwords that are throw away completely. they are used in combination with a fakeish email and I don't care if people hack them. there are no credit cards or any hoenest real information tied to them. I never use my real birthday adddress etc. unless I absolutely have too. IE work forms. IRS etc... b. I have a password formula not unlike xkcd mentioned above. But enough different that I feel like a computer couldn't hack it easily and I can easily remember the password. I often record hints on what changed on these passwords in a text file on a local drive that is slightly encrypted. These are for sites like amazon, or other purchasing sites that have my credit card information. c. One password to rule them all. I have one master password which might change slightly overtime. This is only for banking(wife only knows it) and a second one for secure transfers to my wife and children. They know the password and it is not easy to remember but we seem to do ok with just this one. It is written down only on a piece of paper in an envelop just in case. That is my system. It works for me.
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Hi all! I'm thinking on start using a password manager. It starts to be super complicated to remember everything and I'm super tempted to start storing my passwords in text files... :-O :rolleyes: This said, 1. Do you use them? 2. Do you trust them? 3. Which one do you use? 4. Why? As always, thank you very much! :beer:
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
Like many others here, I wrote my own...so of course I trust it. For portability (laptop or desktop) and security I wanted to use a single-file database that could be password protected and originally used SQL CE, but recently switched it to Access as it's much easier to share with family/friends.
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Hi all! I'm thinking on start using a password manager. It starts to be super complicated to remember everything and I'm super tempted to start storing my passwords in text files... :-O :rolleyes: This said, 1. Do you use them? 2. Do you trust them? 3. Which one do you use? 4. Why? As always, thank you very much! :beer:
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
Yes Yes KeePass I don't recall how I came across it any more, but it seems to fit my needs. Has an Android version. Allows me to can store the file in the cloud and access it anywhere, rather than having to sync devices. As I recall, the developer takes donations to pay for it. I'm not sure how active he is with it any more, so it might be behind the times. In a general sense, I can't believe everyone doesn't use some pwd manager. Just have to remember one, but more importantly, you generate a strong password for your applications. You couldn't tell someone your banking password if you wanted to, because it's something like QW&$(nkfskdoeYIY, that you'd never remember (which is kind of the point, I think). Good luck, you should follow up with your analysis and reasons why you landed on what you did.
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1. Do you use them? Yes 2. Do you trust them? Not really, but about as much as anything else that's an option 3. Which one do you use? LastPass 4. Why? Because I used to use 1Password but ditched it for a number of reasons and settled on LastPass since it was free, seemed adequately secure, and worked on every one of my devices.
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I also use LastPass. A few years ago I read about password managers and liked the fact that LastPass does not know how to decrypt the passwords - if you loose your password then nobody can retrieve your passwords ;) Works on Windows, MacOS and iOS.
Gilles Plante
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Hi all! I'm thinking on start using a password manager. It starts to be super complicated to remember everything and I'm super tempted to start storing my passwords in text files... :-O :rolleyes: This said, 1. Do you use them? 2. Do you trust them? 3. Which one do you use? 4. Why? As always, thank you very much! :beer:
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
KeePass because it stores your encrypted passwords in a file that you control, not on a central server. The only thing that bothers me about it is that you have to trust different developers for the KeePass apps on the various OSs. For iOS, I counted 8 different apps that claim to be KeePass compatible. So which one do you trust? A few years ago, I had a problem with a KeePass app for Blackberry and, after contacting the developer, learned that the app was keeping a debug log that had unencrypted passwords in it. The developer fixed it in a subsequent release.
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Hi all! I'm thinking on start using a password manager. It starts to be super complicated to remember everything and I'm super tempted to start storing my passwords in text files... :-O :rolleyes: This said, 1. Do you use them? 2. Do you trust them? 3. Which one do you use? 4. Why? As always, thank you very much! :beer:
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
Are you on Linux, by chance? If you are you can try C'YaPass and get it from the Snap Store: Install C'YaPass - Never type a password again. for Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft[^] If you want the source you can get it at GitHub: GitHub - raddevus/CYaPass-Electron: The official C'YaPass desktop app built on Electron (runs on Windows, Linux, Mac)[^] Since that is an electron app it means it runs on all three major platforms with no changes (win10, MacOS, Linux). If you pull the code and follow the steps in the readme, it will build it for you platform. I've also developed it as a PWA (Progressive Web App) and you can try it out just by pointing your browser at my (secure) site: C'YaPass : Never type a password again[^] PWAs have to be run from a site that has HTTPS so I've used my newlibre.com web site. Since it is a PWA, it means that you can save the app to your device "desktop" like any other app (for iphone and android phones or pads).
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Hi all! I'm thinking on start using a password manager. It starts to be super complicated to remember everything and I'm super tempted to start storing my passwords in text files... :-O :rolleyes: This said, 1. Do you use them? 2. Do you trust them? 3. Which one do you use? 4. Why? As always, thank you very much! :beer:
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
- Yes 2) Yes 3) PasswordMaker Pro 4) It's open source, very simple to use, doesn't store generated passwords and is fairly configurable. See 'passwordmaker.org' for more info.
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Hi all! I'm thinking on start using a password manager. It starts to be super complicated to remember everything and I'm super tempted to start storing my passwords in text files... :-O :rolleyes: This said, 1. Do you use them? 2. Do you trust them? 3. Which one do you use? 4. Why? As always, thank you very much! :beer:
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
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Don't like cloud stuff, I use Keepass, cross platform. Not to big a deal when your only password is 12345678 :)
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
Me too. easy to use and I keep it on all my machines and sync them periodically. That way id I add a new PW it wind up everywhere. Great Stuff! and it's FREE!
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I keep all my passwords in an unencrypted textfile called "passwords.txt" in my Dropbox. Do you mean that's not safe? :confused:
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I wrote my own, way back when I started learning C# - I keep promising myself that I'll find time to rewrite it, but ... you know how that goes! :laugh:
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I did too. Later in c# when forms were in, before wpf, Infragistics came out with a great set of Windows controls and I wanted to put them to the test. I made a simple table application that allowed column configuration and encryption of the data. I use that for my login info.
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Hi all! I'm thinking on start using a password manager. It starts to be super complicated to remember everything and I'm super tempted to start storing my passwords in text files... :-O :rolleyes: This said, 1. Do you use them? 2. Do you trust them? 3. Which one do you use? 4. Why? As always, thank you very much! :beer:
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
I have always used only Password Safe (free). I can not imagine not using a password manager. Somehow I accumulated 100+ passwords. "It is the way"
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Roll your own.
AKA : Notepad++ :rolleyes:
I'd rather be phishing!
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I use keypass. you can run it on pc phones etc and the database is stored locally and does allow you to have multiple databases. It is used extensively at work by IT, but work tries to push lastpass to the users which has it advantages, but I prefer keypass.
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Hi all! I'm thinking on start using a password manager. It starts to be super complicated to remember everything and I'm super tempted to start storing my passwords in text files... :-O :rolleyes: This said, 1. Do you use them? 2. Do you trust them? 3. Which one do you use? 4. Why? As always, thank you very much! :beer:
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
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Hi all! I'm thinking on start using a password manager. It starts to be super complicated to remember everything and I'm super tempted to start storing my passwords in text files... :-O :rolleyes: This said, 1. Do you use them? 2. Do you trust them? 3. Which one do you use? 4. Why? As always, thank you very much! :beer:
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
I use one (Keypass, https://keypass.info) and I trust it. The price is right (free, although you can make a donation should you find it useful). I use it with both a master password and a keyfile and keep both stored in the cloud (Dropbox). With the database stored in the cloud you can install the client on any device and access it in the cloud. There's even a version for Android and you can make your Dropbox available to your Android device. I don't know about iOS, but there is a Mac client. When I add a new entry, I just let the application create the password and I copy/paste it in the future. All I have to remember is the master password for the database and I'm good to go.
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Don't like cloud stuff, I use Keepass, cross platform. Not to big a deal when your only password is 12345678 :)
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
It should be definitely an open source project. I use Keepass, standard client on PC (with download favicons plugin), and Keepass2Android on the smartphone. The database file is in cloud (Google Drive). Nice and easy, I now store everything precious inside my keepass database. In case of an emergency you just have to remember (and maybe pass to others) two passwords: cloud (Google Drive) and Keepass database file.
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But then I'd probably not be able to find it when I need it myself... :sigh:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Hi all! I'm thinking on start using a password manager. It starts to be super complicated to remember everything and I'm super tempted to start storing my passwords in text files... :-O :rolleyes: This said, 1. Do you use them? 2. Do you trust them? 3. Which one do you use? 4. Why? As always, thank you very much! :beer:
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
1. Yes. 2. Yes. 3. KeePass. 4. I wanted a tool that offers a keyboard shortcut I can use any time to execute an auto-typing of my username and password, as I have to enter my VPN credentials many times a day.
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Hi all! I'm thinking on start using a password manager. It starts to be super complicated to remember everything and I'm super tempted to start storing my passwords in text files... :-O :rolleyes: This said, 1. Do you use them? 2. Do you trust them? 3. Which one do you use? 4. Why? As always, thank you very much! :beer:
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
