Keyrings - a place to store passwords for many systems?
 

I'm losing my grip - not sure if it's age, or just proliferation of passwords.
I have to remember passwords for various client systems, an infinite number of websites (fortunately largely taken care of with firefox), and assorted bank accounts.

The bank accounts in particular are a pain - they impose different security criteria preventing me having a common password, and obviously it's not sensible to store them in a browser in an insecure environment.

I'm reaching the point where I fail to remember them all - I now have to ring the bank a second time, and I really don't want there to be a third time.

I thought what I wanted was a keyring.
Lo and behold - Ubuntu has a keyring manager - it had a login keyring and a session keyring; and I added my own - but I can't find any way of putting any keys in any of them.

Is a keyring the right tool?
If so, how do I use it? Is it secure?
If not, what is the right tool?
I'm quite happy to manually look up, and enter the password by hand - at least one bank seems to have used flash or something to disable browser password management (not unreasonably).
I'd just like something reasonably secure - I don't want to join the post-it-note brigade.

If I'm in the wrong place (this not being very linux specific, although I'd prefer the solution to reside on my linux desktop), please point me in the right direction.

Thanks
Chris

I'm not sure that a keyring is quite the right tool. That is usually meant as a system to store public keys for things like PGP. I've been using a program called Password Gorillathat stores usernames/passwords in an encrypted file. It hasn't been updated in a couple of years, but it still seems to work just fine.

Thanks - found various tools in the Ubuntu repositories, all doing the same thing, and hopefully secure.

Best news of all - it wasn't me at all, it was the bank.
They gave me a new password, and not only could I not get in with it, they couldn't either - my account was broken, and is now fixed.

Cheers
Chris