Password management

**imported_Aurora40** · 04-03-2006, 02:59 PM

Anyone have any useful tools or tips for managing online passwords? I`m finding the requirements for various sites like financial site, credit card account management, etc, are getting tougher and there`s less overlap of password requirements. So I have to have different and complex (thus not easy to remember) passwords for all these places.

I end up forgetting them usually and am always filling out the "forgetten password" stuff.

Anyone use any decent software? Would using Firefox`s built in manager be a bad idea?

**Brace1** · 04-03-2006, 03:32 PM

Don`t know about any specific software (I wouldn`t trust it though since you never know what spyware could be passing on info) but what I do is put a hint for myself that only I would know as part of the name in my favorites.

**imported_Lenard** · 04-03-2006, 03:57 PM

There is nothing wrong with using firefoxes built in password manager. Personally I use Roboform, its a pretty good password management program which is compatible with most web browsers including firefox. They have a trial version available for download.

You can also get firefox extensions like LoginManager and Magic Password Generator to help manage passwords.

Len.

**roaringmouse** · 04-03-2006, 04:48 PM

I use Roboform. http://www.roboform.com/

**kpounds** · 04-03-2006, 05:27 PM

I like and use the free version of Password Agent. It stores up to 25 passwords and will generate PW`s also. Easy to use.

**nappyjim** · 04-03-2006, 06:13 PM

Could just make a word doucument to hold all your passwords. Of course, you would want to password protect this document and possibly make it a hidden document too.

**Dave N** · 04-03-2006, 06:46 PM

My "password management" consists of a sheet of paper with websites, logins, and passwords all written down, kept in an "undisclosed location". Simplicity at its simplest

**tomstin** · 04-04-2006, 04:38 AM

Works well for me http://www.passkeeper.com/

**nudave** · 04-04-2006, 10:24 AM

I use keypass, and its free! Just search keypass over Google. Encrypts the data, doesn`t keep it the cut/copy/paste cache for more than 10 seconds, and doesn`t connect to the internet

**Teutonics** · 04-04-2006, 11:31 AM

I use CryptoCard... it allows password management information to be maintained and synchronized on both a PC and a PocketPC. I don`t always use the same passwords on my different PC`s (work, laptop, home, wife`s, etc.), so this keeps them synchronized on a single source (PPC) and any other PC`s to which I sync the PPC.

And it is free...

**Tasty** · 04-04-2006, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by Dave N

My "password management" consists of a sheet of paper with websites, logins, and passwords all written down, kept in an "undisclosed location". Simplicity at its simplest

Amen. This is my strategy. Plus, a piece of paper can`t crash like a program or the comp itself.

**andyman** · 06-06-2006, 08:31 AM

Originally Posted by daveb

I use keypass, and its free! Just search keypass over Google. Encrypts the data, doesn`t keep it the cut/copy/paste cache for more than 10 seconds, and doesn`t connect to the internet

Another vote for KeePass (http://keepass.sourceforge.net/). It the cat`s meow. It has several extra nifty features not found in a log of the other free managers. My favorite being the ability to keep the password database on several PC`s and carry the "key" around on my thumbdrive. I have to supply the master password AND have my thumbdrive attached to the machine to be able to get into the password database. That level of security is optional.