PC utilities: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords
- 2/27/09 4:58 PM
Roboform Mobile for USB
by scarletgem - 3/14/09 6:51 PM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Password protected encripted application on USB...has worked great for me for years.
Managing Password
by crtjesters - 3/14/09 8:05 PM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
1 word...RoboForm! Password manager, Form Filler and Password management all in one!!! This program does it all! It's worth every penny! You can even save a copy to file or printout your entire list. Take the time to fill in all the fields indicated and it will automatically fill out every form om the internet. Locks out after what ever time you desire. Give it a shot!
Simple solution
by Lloyd_Hayes - 3/14/09 8:56 PM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Here is a simple solution that I have used from the days of the Commodore 64 to the present. I simply create a file with all of my passwords. It can be a database, spreadsheet, word document or even a simple note keeper program.
At different times I have used files related to programs which required their own passwords. Currently I am using Open-Office documents with password protection. Also any program that generates Acrobat files with password protection should also work. The password that you use for this document should be different from any other password that you use and should be one that is easy for you to remember.
If you don't have a program that generates password protected files, you can download 3rd party programs which will scramble your file keeping it secure until a password is entered
Password Corral activation
by CNETMurren - 3/15/09 5:17 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've downloaded and installed Pawword Corral. Having listed a couple of passwords in the document I cannot see how to access this document again with a username and password that I initially chose.
Can anybody help.
password
by tino1960 - 3/15/09 6:38 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
you can use the ERD for search of password.
WHAT IF?
by kevsigler - 3/15/09 7:14 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
You have to have a special character, a capital, a number, they make you change it every 90 days, and you get three chances to get it right or it locks you out. Once locked out you have to change your password and it can not be to a password that you have every had on there system.
If we were protecting the secrets of America or the launch codes I could understand but, isn't this going to far?
Remember all the passwords you have selected with RoboForm !
by PaulDequidt - 3/15/09 9:44 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am using this program with 100% satisfaction wsince now more than 500 days ! It allows me to log-in automatically and remind my passwords even after a total crash of my PC. Important for me is that the program can be run in your mothertongue language. I run it in Dutch.
If you want to see how it works go to www.roboform.com. This is a protected software that runs even on your multi-users PC !
I' ve never seen a better program than that.
I know your pain my friend!
by Batgus - 3/15/09 2:36 PM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am just as frustrated as you are with online passwords. I have chosen to list mine in an Excel spreadsheet. Perhaps you could do the same or maybe use Word and since you live with others save the file to a flash drive that you can carry in your pocket or put in a lock box.
Easy to remember
by Atomic_Rooster - 3/15/09 3:33 PM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I like to use a sentence with no spaces and add special characters and numbers.
For instance.
I love my wife.
Il0vemywif3
I can appreciate....
by trishdom - 3/15/09 6:31 PM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
....that a lot of you out there really love your Password Management Programs, but I am of the opinion- why pay for one when there is so much out there to help you do it for free? And you can accomplish the same thing with them. I read through this thread and it almost sounds like an advertising thread for these programs (LOL).
I'm not trying to knock anyone, so please don't take offense. I just wanted to mention that you really don't have to pay for a program to do it. If that's what makes you feel better, and you can afford it, and feel you only get quality if you pay your hard earned money....more power to you. Enjoy. But, as I said...there are ways to do it for free.
KEYboard PassWordS
by Good-PC.Guy! - 3/16/09 12:06 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
That's a problem which I easily solved for myself long ago! ...
Your keyboard has all your easy-to-recall passwords (in effect) stored right in front of you!
To begin with, decide for yourself if you'll ALWAYS use the first (or perhaps the second), or ALWAYS the last letter of the site-name where your password is needed for.
Then decide if you'll always add which-ever keys that are next to that first key (on your keyboard), by ALWAYS going Right or ALWAYS going Left, from that first key.
Then ALWAYS add a letter or a number that you'd never forget. And ALWAYS use that same choice for ALL your passwords.
So for example, lets say you need a password for 'eBay'... then using my simple KEYboard-PassWord maker/keeper,,
the first key (pressed) would be 'e', then followed by 'rtyuiop', plus the extra key that can always be easily recalled, such as '0' (for this example),
would then combine to create the password ' ertyuiop0 ' (in this case) ...
Or you could choose to always go another way, making your 'eBay' password with the 'y' then followed by 'trewq',, plus '0',
to make ' ytrewq0 ' the password, (for this 2nd example, of many) .
This means that (in this case) all my passwords would then always end with '0', and thus that's the only key i'd ever have to remember!
And it also means that the rest of the keys in the password would depend on keys of which i'd never have to remember!!
Now you should SEE how this is a good constant solution, as it could be somewhat altered just a bit (by reversing or shuffling the order), to get great variation (from person to person),
yet still be a REAL PASSWORD that's no problem to recall! (Because the only part which you need to remember of each password, is the same for ALL your passwords!)
Now if you think it's not a smart way to go, then I suggest that you haven't really thought it out very well yet.
Try my solution, and you should SEE how easy it is to use.
Well thought out....but.....
by trishdom - 3/16/09 3:52 AM In reply to: KEYboard PassWordS by Good-PC.Guy!I applaud you for thinking that up, but the problem is, where I work, they detect keyboard inputs when you change your password (must be changed every 90 days and can't be the same as previous ones). If it detects any kind of a pattern or consecutive keys typed, it rejects it.
Partial solution combined with your method- instead of using consecutive keys, go every other key left or right (but then, depending on length, you'd run off the keyboard LOL). At the same time you could use alternating caps.
Here are some answers
by postype - 3/16/09 12:56 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
William,
Yes this has always been an issue from day one.
I betcha my password list is longer than yours.
1. Find an obscure program (maybe a spreadsheet) very few people still use and just put in each website on it's own line with login name and/or email then the password you chose for that site.
2. There is a little program you can get for free (shareware or freeware) that is called iDailyDiary by www.splinterware.com which is a little independent program that has days and months and you can keep logs of anything you want on any date. Kind of neat, you could use this little program. Oh by the way it too is password protected.
Remember passwords are for your protection, likewise protect your passwords also, that makes since. I would keep a simple password only you know for computers and programs in your home or office that only you know, but in turn are simple for you to remember. Such as "Fluffy" or just something that fits you and keep it in your mind and don't list it in the computer.
Hope this helps.
Re: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords
by tsouchlarakis - 3/16/09 4:47 AM In reply to: Help! I'm at my wits end trying to manage my passwords by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Hi,
First of all I would like to state how much I fell for you.
My solution for the problem at hand is TiddlyWiki (a spread sheet would suffice also) sited in an encrypted USB and opened in a tab on firefox. All it takes is four columns, one for site URL, one for my registration e-mail address, one for username and one final for my password. This way I maintain (quite efficiently) more than hundred and ten login credentials.
mt
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