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PC utilities: Poll: How do you keep track of all your passwords?
- 3/13/09 2:14 PM
Keeping track of passwords
by Linda Frazier - 3/13/09 6:10 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you keep track of all your passwords? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I enter my email address/user info on a Rolodex card along with my password. OR for some, I use lamination machine and make cards with the info on them, laminate, then put them on luggage tags on a keyring.
Linda
Not Too Many
by Suenell - 3/13/09 6:17 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you keep track of all your passwords? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use 4 random passwords for everything. So even if I forget, I can go through all 4 and eventually get it right before I'm locked out of trying again.
Password Manager for my simple mind
by AleeaB - 3/13/09 6:17 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you keep track of all your passwords? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I keep a Rolodex with the complete name, addresses (snail, mailing & physical location), phone #s, at least 2 points of contact names and a short description of what/why/when I needed to the information. Within all that information is a password. I do not need to lock it up because there is no pattern to what the password might be and all are unique. I find the older I get the worse my memory is and the alphabetical Rolodex is just what I need. If necessary, I can lock it in the safe until it is safe to leave out again. My assorted user names are also unique for each of the letters of the alphabet in my Rolodex Currently there are about 400 cards in the file and some cards are in their 10th or more edition based on how often passwords have to be changed.
Keeping Track of Passwords
by Brewash - 3/13/09 6:36 PM In reply to: Password Manager for my simple mind by AleeaBI do the same thing. I find this is the easiest method.
Kudos!!
Saw it in a comic book!!
by boneking - 3/14/09 10:10 PM In reply to: Password Manager for my simple mind by AleeaBI save all mine on a flash drive in an Excel chart. In addition they are all written down BACKWARDS so if anyone does find them they don't work. (except dad & mom & wow, etc!!)
I use an address book
by Aim4Stars - 3/17/09 8:50 AM In reply to: Password Manager for my simple mind by AleeaBSimilar to some of the suggestions, I use an inexpensive address book for password and similar information. I use ink for accounts and pencil for passwords which will be changing. One person knows where it is and what information to access if anything happens to me. I also keep a list on a jump drive in my safe deposit box.
I use eWallet so I can synch with all my mobile devices
by NFredT - 3/13/09 6:18 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you keep track of all your passwords? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I depended on a password manager from Dataviz for years but it only synchs with Palm based devices. I have tested Roboform, KeePass and a few others but just recently found a product named eWallet by ilium software. I needed a version to work with my laptop and smartphone while my wife needed a version to synch between her laptop and Blackberry. They have the solutions and they work great.
I'll have to look into that
by depage - 3/14/09 6:51 AM In reply to: I use eWallet so I can synch with all my mobile devices by NFredTI'm currently using the Dataviz product, which solves the problem of the computer crashing by having it on my Treo 700p as well. I'll have to look at eWallet and other solutions for the future though. I really DO need the portability of having passwords on my cellphone.
And yes, I use Sxipper for the web only passwords.
Password system
by juliewishes - 3/13/09 6:27 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you keep track of all your passwords? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use Roboform which I think is fantastic and it saves me so much time and worry. I also have a reminder in my calendar on the first of each mont to print out all my passwords from Roboform - and all my bank accounts and bill pay and Outlook address book - and I file them and put them in a safe place - locked draw. I think that anyone who got to them and realized what the information was would need a lot of time to work their way through it all.
Crackberry!
by timthescarred - 3/13/09 8:59 PM In reply to: Password system by juliewishesI have a Blackberry which comes with a great little software called PasswordKeeper I only have to remember a password to get into it, and it has everything else. I keep my phone regularly backed up to my computer just in case anything should happen
password management Norton 360
by toeboston - 3/13/09 6:46 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you keep track of all your passwords? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The current version of Norton 360 includes a feature called Identity Safe that includes a password manager. Its not perfect, but I use it. Its feature rich and I don't have the patience to master it.
I use Password Manager
by aqw8326 - 3/13/09 6:48 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you keep track of all your passwords? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
This program, will save your username and password as you enter it, then will encrypt it. You can also let it choose a password for you. It also requires a password to be opened.
Hah, went to post here & had to remember another password:)
by jmwren - 3/13/09 7:00 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you keep track of all your passwords? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I usually write the user id and password down on my paper bills. If it's an acct like yahoo, or google.. with no paper I try to use the same three or four passwords that I know by heart..For my business there are so many more passwords to remember although I try to use the same one but I have my girls at the office create a file and then a printout of all the accts and passwords user id's etc.. then I keep it at home in a safe place. I don't think I would trust a program on the computer, although I do let windows remember some of my user ids. That does help..I have also found that even with extra security questions to go through you are not 100% safe. I had a girl working for us that knew all my security answers as she ran my office, then she left us and I had to think up new ones to protect everything. That can be really tricky when you have such basic questions like your mothers maiden name.. etc.. so I've learned to be creative, but even then I forget some of it..lol..
Keep Track of Passwords
by oliverrp - 3/13/09 7:18 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you keep track of all your passwords? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I periodically print off all my passwords and store that document in a safe. So I really do three of the things on the list.
Passwords
by jmj947 - 3/13/09 7:21 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you keep track of all your passwords? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use RoboForm... great product. As to crashed or stolen PCs: I have a backup of my entire hard drive on both an external hard drive and with SOS online backup. I think I'm safe.
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