"linuxques" is just an example, which would happen to work for the LinuxQuestions.org website, on which we sit.

Why not use Kwallet? Why not use what I want? My system works perfectly for me.

Exactly! And on top of that, they always seem to expire when you want to "real quick just login" and do something simple.

PassReminder, which works on Linux and Windows. However, after reading the previous posts I'm starting to think this might not be secure enough.
My passwords are combinations of a few basic strings, which I join according to the nature of the site/program/domain I am using.

BrianL

Can I have some of your brain cells pls...I live in Australia and mine have leaked out over the years.

To anyone

I use a acronym system....of some line or whatever eg

you may secretly like a line in a movie like

Give the bag to Bozo.

acronym it becomes gtbtb...add some extra characters and numbers.

It should not be something you repeat to people....like if I always say ....cheerio and may linux bless you (puke)...it can not be based on that...but something secret.....a man secret would do.

eg two.....iltksabb....without the extras

....

wait for it...

I love to kiss sexy aussie beach babes.

I use something similar except that mine are derived from phrases that depict my mood at the time and then I exchange the letters for special characters/numbers. Not a bad system since I only have to remember a phrase, but the fun part comes in trying to remember which symbols I used...

I have a number of passwords I use, then I add on different extensions to them. Thus, I can keep them all in my head and very rarely do I forget one.

I have a "standard" prefix to my password that I use in many places, then change either the beginning or end few characters depending upon what I am using it for.

I don't get the mechanism. How is that realized in your bash script, or is it intrinsic in the password file ... but I still don't get the connection .

My, aren't we touchy . I just asked out of curiosity, no criticism intended. After all, you took the pains to create your own solution, I just wanted to know what made you decline the use of a prefabbed one like Kwallet.

The plaintext format of the encrypted file is something like this:

linuxquestions.org username password

So when my function unencrypts the file and greps it, the argument "linuxques" catches that line and spits it out, but is unlikely to match any other entry.

As a bonus, if I'm looking for some site I know I've been on but can't remember, I can grep for some small part of it and I get all the sites that match.

Sorry, none to spare. I could do with a few million more. Where can we get them?

i use always the same pass pharse:
user: <user>
pass: error

imagine:
# decrypt <hash>:

<hash> = error

it's a killer for my bluez sig in my phone

just kidding:
i mostly use leet and "asciirilyca"
and _wrong_ words like "grandmar" and like

Ah. Thanks for the explanation, KenJackson.

The better you choose a new password for every thing.

Use this chart to remember:
http://PasswordChart.com

But you must choose a method.

Funny site. Thanks alMubarmij .

I keep a few in my head. I'm a big fan of passphrases - it gets me a long (and thus secure) phrase with minimal effort on my part. I realize that basing it upon dictionary words weakens it a bit, but not so much that being 2-3 longer won't compensate I don't think :-). The exception is my banking/credit card passwords. These are all at least 12 characters long and fully randomly generated for utmost security. No way I'm going to remember them. I used Password Gorilla for some time, mostly because it allowed me to (via ntfs-3g or extfs at my option) use the same password file between both sides of my XP/lenny dual boot. Recently, I moved off of Password Gorilla. It makes me slightly nervous that the last release was in '06, and it's holding my most sensitive data. Also, usage of the XP side of my dual boot atrophied so significantly that compatibility became a non-issue. When I'm on the go, I use whatever password manager is in the Maemo repos for my n800. Perhaps its from GPE?