Arch Linux

lang2

Member

Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

Re: What do you use to keep all the passwords?

A great distro + a hugely humorous user base. I enjoyed the posts so much that I almost forgot what my original question was.

WernerL

Member

Registered: 2007-07-03

Posts: 161

Re: What do you use to keep all the passwords?

pwmanager

Works great :-)

hokasch

Member

Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: What do you use to keep all the passwords?

The admins managing my university network have a total security-freakout: You have to choose a password that contains numbers, characters and special characters alike. It must not contain any word, name, brand or place - they have an awesome huge wordlist your would-be password gets matched with. Of curse, your password is valid only 6 months, and when you change it, the new one can not contain parts of the old one (even though you may not draw cash, start atomic missiles or so. but you can use the intranet).

What helps me a lot with this is choosing calculations as passwords, e.g. 15-4e[qual]11.

Last edited by hokasch (2008-08-17 14:26:49)

SiB

Member

Registered: 2008-07-03

Posts: 38

Re: What do you use to keep all the passwords?

I use Keepass to store my password. The nice thing about Keepass is that it's open and works on windows, macs and *nix (KeepassX for *nix is binary compatible with Keepass files). I even wrote a little bash script to sync my password file to a secure webdav site. So my password db is always synced on all my boxes (Linux and Windows).

Last edited by SiB (2008-08-17 14:59:30)

QuimaxW

Member

From: Papua New Guinea

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 228

Website

Re: What do you use to keep all the passwords?

Post-it(R) note taped to the bottom of my keyboard.

Seriously...I can't believe no one else does this here...

---

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." -Jim Elliot

jbromley

Member

From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 268

Re: What do you use to keep all the passwords?

http://supergenpass.com/ for most non-critical passwords. That way I only have to remember one password for many sites. For sensitive sites I use a text file on a truecrypt encrypted partition.

luuuciano

Member

Registered: 2007-01-27

Posts: 310

Re: What do you use to keep all the passwords?

http://www.keepassx.org/

---

I arch, you arch, he arch, she arch, we arch, they arch...

onearm

Member

From: Anywhere but here

Registered: 2006-07-06

Posts: 359

Website

Re: What do you use to keep all the passwords?

A couple of text files (one for important password and another for less important ones) crypted with two different gpg keys so I have to remember just the keys' passwords. And to do so I keep a cryptic remainder of them on paper, and for cryptic I mean that if the password is "apple81" I'll note on paper "fruit earth-shaped, discipline kc" where kc means King Crimson and discipline one of their albums, being 1981 the release year.

All this just to not leave my password clearly written somewhere, I'm a bit paranoic I know.

---

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three persons, two of them absent.
--
My Github

Boris Bolgradov

Member

From: Bulgaria

Registered: 2008-07-27

Posts: 185

Re: What do you use to keep all the passwords?

a soft link in my head to my local finger muscles

Same thing here. LoL

patogen

Member

Registered: 2008-05-11

Posts: 86

Re: What do you use to keep all the passwords?

I keep them in my mind, but most of my passwords are made up the same way, for instance say that the skeleton of the password is 'mjkilse' (it's not, no need to try) then all passwords are based of that, like:

^3€mjkilse((((!!!
umjkilsedd666¨ü¥
{i^xp93mjkilse

This gives me secure passwords without the need for remembering all that much. When I can't remember mjkilse, the skeleton I'm going to get worried.

---

We met up with the aliens and guess what? They have no word for fluffy!

tlaloc

Member

From: Lower Saxony

Registered: 2006-05-12

Posts: 359

Re: What do you use to keep all the passwords?

I use well-known place names from a rather obscure American Indian language which I happen to know. (Well, it is not so obscure - I think it still has more than 200.000 speakers). You can easily insert numbers and other special signs. If a place is called "Six wells", I will just transform it to "6 wells" and translate that in my mind. Whatever good word lists are out there - it will look completely arbitrary to anyone else.

Loke

Member

From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-10-21

Posts: 139

Re: What do you use to keep all the passwords?

KeePass/KeePassX too since it runs on both Linux and Windows.

userlander

Member

Registered: 2008-08-23

Posts: 413

Re: What do you use to keep all the passwords?

I have a few "base password" variations that I use for most things. I start with the base, and then I change the symbol and the number. That gives lots of variations of strong passwords that are also easy to remember. Or if you do forget, you can usually just cycle through the number combinations and eventually hit it. When I start running out of combinations or need to change things up, I just make some new base passwords and start over.

For passwords that don't follow the pattern and that I can't afford to forget, I use password dragon, a cross platform java app.

http://www.passworddragon.com/

luuuciano

Member

Registered: 2007-01-27

Posts: 310

Re: What do you use to keep all the passwords?

^3€mjkilse((((!!!
umjkilsedd666¨ü¥
{i^xp93mjkilse

I do not understand it.... how do you remember the non skeleton part??

Last edited by luuuciano (2008-08-26 18:15:43)

---

I arch, you arch, he arch, she arch, we arch, they arch...