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 11:52:32 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 44 Message-ID: <874kcz5pqn.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d99a2aa5e30c72b9011dead7e6361f9f"; logging-data="7668"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ipJYanp2gD1ea7IAVPojV" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ycPlvI+3wrGZSOodFAGB2mSGYZI= sha1:auyLn4KItzNKgbWq9BBPICvG144= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:137222 comp.sys.mac.misc:8042 comp.unix.misc:277 comp.misc:21056 [I don't know why the OP cross-posted to alt.atheism. I've dropped it] Wade Garrett writes: > On 7/12/21 5:53 AM, Unbreakable Disease wrote: >> My 50-year old brain isn't capable of memorizing that many passwords >> anymore, so I use KeePassXC. I keep basically everything here >> including my financial passwords and credit card data, with the >> exception of passwords that I would have to remember anyway >> (full-disk encryption, login, primary e-mail passwords, etc.) >> Overall, it's much easier to remember and much harder to forget 10 >> complicated passwords that you use everyday than 100+ simple >> passwords you use every month or even less. >> I can't speak about Windows version of KeePass, because with the >> exception of playing games not available on Macintosh, I haven't >> used one since Windows 95 days. > > I'd like to use a password manager but I'm not comfortable with that > data being on some server somewhere- allegedly encrypted or not. > > If there's one that keeps the data just on the local machine, I'd be > interested. > > I keep a spreadsheet with my PWs on my FileVault-encrypted iMac hard > drive and copy/paste to logins that need to stay secure- financial, > vendors, healthcare, etc. > > I always log out before leaving the house. 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. -- 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 */