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05-01-2015, 01:01 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2014
Location: Illinois
Distribution: Xubuntu
Posts: 2,037
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What's a safe and EASY TO USE password manager?
I'm using Xubuntu 15.04. Sure I'd like something secure but I don't want Fort Knox complexity either. Any suggestions?
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05-01-2015, 02:55 AM
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Registered: Sep 2008
Posts: 220
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I use KeePass. It's cross platform and easy to use (at least for me).
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05-01-2015, 03:14 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2008
Location: The garden of England. Technically, the compost heap.
Distribution: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Posts: 60
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I use keepassx. It should be in the repositories.
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05-01-2015, 06:28 AM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2015
Location: Cheektowaga, NY
Distribution: ArchLinux
Posts: 34
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I use keepass for local accounts, like SSH and such and lastpass for internet sites (like this one)
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05-01-2015, 09:05 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Abingdon, VA
Distribution: Catalina
Posts: 9,374
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Lastpass here.
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05-01-2015, 09:17 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Arizona, USA
Distribution: Debian, EndeavourOS, OpenSUSE, KDE Neon
Posts: 4,029
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Keepass also.
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05-01-2015, 02:16 PM
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LQ Muse
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: A2 area Mi.
Posts: 17,688
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the best password manager is the "little gray cells" behind your eyes
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05-01-2015, 02:28 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Canada
Distribution: distro hopper
Posts: 11,352
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KeePassX
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the best password manager is the "little gray cells" behind your eyes
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Naah. Randomly generate a different 10-25 character password for each site, and you need software to manage them. Does this then bring up concerns about the security of your password store being a single point of catastrophic failure? Well, yes it does, but IMHO that's made up for by the fact that it enables you to use stronger individual passwords.
Last edited by dugan; 05-01-2015 at 02:32 PM.
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05-01-2015, 05:12 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2013
Location: Cornwall
Distribution: 15.0 on Ryzen Thinkpad A285
Posts: 28
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I rely day-to-day on Firefox remembering my random-generated passwords. Is that insecure?
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05-01-2015, 05:19 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Canada
Distribution: distro hopper
Posts: 11,352
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spat
I rely day-to-day on Firefox remembering my random-generated passwords. Is that insecure?
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No, but what do you do when you clear your history?
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05-01-2015, 05:32 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2013
Location: Cornwall
Distribution: 15.0 on Ryzen Thinkpad A285
Posts: 28
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dugan
No, but what do you do when you clear your history?
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The script which generates my random passwords stores them in a root subdirectory textfile which I edit now and then to permanently remember account numbers and the like. I've a recall script that greps the file. All those operations needs privilege. One day I might find out how to grep passwords straight into the GUI clipboard but most of the time Firefox fills the fields.
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05-01-2015, 11:08 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2014
Location: Illinois
Distribution: Xubuntu
Posts: 2,037
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Thanks very much for the feedback.
Another question: what's the difference between KeePass and KeePassX, and which would be better for me running Xubuntu 15.04?
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05-01-2015, 11:23 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Arizona, USA
Distribution: Debian, EndeavourOS, OpenSUSE, KDE Neon
Posts: 4,029
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KeePass is the original program, is built on Silverlight, so requires Mono. KeePassX is a cross-platform port of keepass, but MOST implementations are still using the older, less secure 1.x code instead of the newer 2.x code.
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05-01-2015, 11:32 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC
Distribution: Debian,Ubuntu,Slackware
Posts: 479
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My vote is for lastpass with multifactor authentication.
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05-01-2015, 11:33 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2014
Location: Illinois
Distribution: Xubuntu
Posts: 2,037
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Timothy Miller
KeePass is the original program, is built on Silverlight, so requires Mono. KeePassX is a cross-platform port of keepass, but MOST implementations are still using the older, less secure 1.x code instead of the newer 2.x code.
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Thanks Timothy but a bit over my head. What's Mono? And what implementations (implementations of what?) are you referring to? So is Keepass or KeepassX the more secure choice? And, LOL, I'm still not sure which would be better for me.
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