PC utilities: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords
- 2/27/09 4:58 PM
Passwords
by Jim Griggs - 3/14/09 10:11 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I did not read all the replys but the best solution is bio-metric. ie. a fingerprint reader. Place or swipe your finger and away you go. For desktop, I recommend the APC for about $50. For a laptop, most have one built in. Just make sure you backup the fingerprint datafile.
Password
by BornRockwall97 - 3/14/09 11:14 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Aside from using AnyPassword, I find that if I create a sentence and use the first letter of each word in that sentence as the character within the password. For example; family member birthdates, start with yourself, then if you have to change the password as a requirement, move down the line (naturally, if applicable); significant other, children, siblings, parents, etc. So lets suggest you were born in Chicago Illinois in 1950. Your resulting password would be: IwbiCIi50. 'I was born in Chicago Illinois in 50'. I think you get the idea. Just remember the years of everyone's birth,or whatever anniversary it is you choose.
memory stick and passwords
by cknight32 - 3/14/09 11:40 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
With windows Notepad start a file called Notes on a usb memory stick.
Put a link to this file in quick launch.
Put anything you need to remember in this file.
Use the Find in Notepad to find what you need.
Remove memory stick when not neaded.
Lastpass.com (from an ex-Roboform user)
by glenncarr - 3/14/09 12:57 PM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Check out http://lastpass.com . It's free and it provides a central database that can be accessed from any computer without requiring any special software.
I used RoboForm for years (I have purchased 3 licenses), but switched to Lastpass a few months ago, and haven't looked back.
Make sure you read the FAQs:
https://lastpass.com/faq.php
Also, there are well-done browser extensions for both IE and Firefox.
Lastpass.com (cont.)...
by glenncarr - 3/14/09 2:09 PM In reply to: Lastpass.com (from an ex-Roboform user) by glenncarrAnother advantage of both Lastpass.com and RoboForm is that they both provide a built-in tool to generate random passwords, which makes for much greater security than using a variation of the same password everywhere.
BTW, My experience so for is that Lastpass has all the features of RoboForm for auto-filling forms, plus some extra features for handling session timeouts... plus the obvious advantage of having one central repository.
Digital asset access
by datamancf - 3/14/09 1:06 PM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have been using Roboform for 715 days - What other program provides this information on their help menu? Also have Roboform 2go on a USB Sandisk Cruzer. Use Goodsync to keep the 100 items synced.
My wife is amazed that everything she needs to know about our cloud computing life is contained in something the size of a pack of gum. She keeps the pink plastic cover hidden along with the one password she needs to know if and when alzeheimers or something should happen to me. Don't expect her to to figure it out, but any of our children can plug the Cruzer into any computer in the world and help her settle my estate. Still have room for a will, taxes, and other estate planning documents.
Legacy Locker is launching a new product in April designed to pass on digital assets to the next generation.
https://www.legacylocker.com/why/online-assets-have-value
onepassword.com
by jc4691 - 3/14/09 3:22 PM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Go to onepassword.com and download this small utility for your browser. It adds a small button to your toolbar and generates a unique password for every web site based on your master password. It is free and easy to use. I have used this for many years and love it.
Re: Onepassword.com
by moosish - 3/14/09 7:17 PM In reply to: onepassword.com by jc4691I checked it out, and it looks really good! Thanks! I would suggest, however, that instead of actually typing in your master password each time, get the free macro program called Speed Typing. After you set up your master password in it, not even a typing stroke spy program will be able to know what you enter into (any) master password space!
Password management
by Michael Hodgson - 3/14/09 4:00 PM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I can do one better than most of the earlier posts; I've written a password management system that includes history; i.e. it remembers all past passwords used for a particular username, or piece of hardware. This is particularly good for SysAdmin's, which is what I wrote it for.
The next step will be a random password generator.
Michael Hodgson
Already Done.....
by trishdom - 3/15/09 6:23 PM In reply to: Password management by Michael HodgsonMichael. There is already a random password generator using Excel. I downloaded it about a year ago and it comes in really handy, since I have the problem of not being allowed to use old passwords, and have to change them every 60 to 90 days.
As far as history....I just keep all of them in Acerose Password Vault. When it changes, I make another entry for it. That way I keep the old ones too.
Keep them in your on-line email account
by phillipharris - 3/14/09 4:09 PM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Create a Word document with a three column table. List the service, the user ID and the password and then mail it to yourself as an attachment using an on-line email account and then save the email in a separate email file. All you have to remember is the ID and password to your email account. You can erase the Word file or save it in a password protected file on your computer. You then have access to your IDs and passwords most everywhere and it isn't available on paper for someone else to find.
my bank wants me to change password
by doug_mary - 3/14/09 6:01 PM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
When banks or others demanded changes in my password because their idiot systems people left a pc with passwords in a bar their solution is to change all passwords. I call them.(very difficult to get to human, but you have to do it). I then tell them I like my current password and either my password stays as is or I move to a more secure bank, store, etc.
I've been batting about .850 so far.
Password
by pmhirsch - 3/14/09 6:34 PM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use a spreadsheet and instead of using the actual password I use a mnemonic such as STNME for street name so it is a little bit encrypted.
Obvious answer not mentioned here yet
by Donnieork - 3/14/09 6:43 PM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Shees! This is easy. Go here:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Remembering+Passwords
Oh, yeah--thanks
by tryggda - 3/14/09 7:54 PM In reply to: Obvious answer not mentioned here yet by DonnieorkI use that all the time too but forgot about the manager part which Firefox very helpfully supplies. Google toolbar does it too I think.
Thanks for the reminder.
(Still think my Desdemona suggestion is good, too, though. See elsewhere on this thread.)
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