Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:48:31 +0000 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net VKNHon8PjJ/9MfnlgQCzyQxvM/xTeVnycl1m30xDifYuvt4bOF X-Orig-Path: squidward.local.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:F7EBitO69FR7WkBn9sj1HLw9VhU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:1483 On 11/03/14 20:24, Jerry Peters wrote: > Same here, been using Keepassx for years now. It replaced a file > folder full of post-it notes. I use the Comments section to keep > track of the "secret questions" sites use for additional validation > or password reset. Beats trying to remember "your favorite movie star" > of 10 years ago. The way I do it is to format the password field like this: [PW=????] [Mother's maiden name=????] [Pet=????] The advantage is that the password field comes up obscured by default so people can't so easily catch a glimpse until you are ready to "show password" for a few seconds. Disadvantage - copy2clipboard doesn't work - but I don't use that so much. My only complaint about KeePassX is that last time I looked at the source, it did not mlock() its memory pages (the ones with secret data) which means a significant danger of getting your cleartext passwords left smeared over the swap device.