Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.misc Subject: Re: Do you use a password manager? Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:15:32 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 27 Message-ID: <87zgur47bv.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: <874kcz5pqn.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d99a2aa5e30c72b9011dead7e6361f9f"; logging-data="14801"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ph49syOHhCrrh5Awz2iHM" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:M+6OusgtxtOxlcKN7V0VnVWteFg= sha1:opLMcIQ7HG7hr5guSIBfpcoBKMo= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:137224 comp.sys.mac.misc:8044 comp.unix.misc:279 comp.misc:21058 Lewis writes: > In message <874kcz5pqn.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> Keith Thompson wrote: [...] >> I use PasswordSafe https://pwsafe.org/ . > >> It's a Windows application with clones available for Android, iOS, and Mac. > >> There's a Linux version, available as "passwordsafe" in the Ubuntu repos >> (and presumably others), but I haven't gotten it to work. > >> password-gorilla is a Linux application that uses the same file format >> and should be available in the package repos for most distributions. > >> Keeping the database synchronized across devices is left as an exercise. > > And that means you end up with not having the password you need unless > you limit your use of the Internet to a single machine. Not if I replicate the encrypted database across the machines I use. I understand that that could open a potential security hole if I'm not sufficiently careful. But if I *am* sufficiently careful, my database doesn't exist on anyone else's server. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com Working, but not speaking, for Philips void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */