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Re: password management
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:51:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> It's time to revamp how I manage my passwords. I have a scheme now for
> generating different passwords for different sites but there are just too many.
> I did a little Google search:
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> and came up with a few ideas
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> generator approach:
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> http://www.angel.net/~nic/passwd.html (put in the site URL, and a master
> password or pass phrase and get a password for that site, if you forget it you
> have to regenerate using the same URL, which may be problematic if a site moves
> where the login page is)
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> management approach:
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> http://www.anypassword.com/ (save the passwords away in a db which you access
> via a master password. This, for example, is how Quicken works its password
> vault)
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> What do other people do? Surely you don't all use the same password for
> everything? My manual scheme (which I am not going to describe but it does
> result in different passwords) is breaking down, too many sites.
I run KeePass off of a thumb drive:
http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
Its an encrypted database app that will store user ids, passwords, urls, notes,
attachments, etc. It also features a group/category feature which allows you to
organize everything. A rule based pwd generator is built in.
I run app from a batch file (so drive letter doesn't matter) which also copies
the db file to the c: drive in case I lose the USB drive, I've got back-ups of
the db in a few places.
-Rob.
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