[dba-Tech] Password Manager apps

Fri Oct 7 14:16:15 CDT 2022

Yep, yep and YEP.  I store all of my credit cards in there.  I have
bookmarks for all my bill web sites.  When I click the hotlink, the PWM
discovers the site, grabs the username and password, and logs it in.  I can
control whether the PWM automatically fills out or not.  They even fill out
the credit card forms from the data in the PWM.  It is funny how hard it is
to get a nube to even consider a PWM, but once they do...  My wife, my son,
I keep offering to help them set it up.  Nope, not ready.

I've been using OnePass since long before MS bought them.

On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 2:44 PM John Bartow <jbartow at winhaven.net> wrote:

> John,
> That's how all of them that I'm familiar with work.
>
> Personally, I've been using Roboform for 20 years. The only password I
> have to remember is my Roboform master password.
> I can't trust the internet here so having a purely cloud based system
> doesn't work for me. They used to have a USB flash drive option so I could
> carry a flash drive with me but now they dropped that in favor of a cloud
> version that's available on most devices and the web. I have my local copy
> automatically sync to their server so my logins, bookmarks, identities,
> contacts  and secure notes are anywhere I need to access them now. Like
> Roboform, most of them have a password generator so you can just have it
> fill-in a very long and secure password for you. In essence, I don't know
> most of my passwords because they are ridiculously long and complicated.
> There's also some functions to check for weak passwords or passwords that
> you've used on more than one site - major no-nos these days.
>
> John B
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces+jbartow=winhaven.net at databaseadvisors.com>
> On Behalf Of John Colby
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2022 12:17 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <
> dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Password Manager apps
>
> They are stored in an encrypted file, with the password to get into that
> only known to you.  It is up to you to use a password that cannot be
> hacked.  I use a 12 character password with upper / lower / number /
> symbols.  It is ONLY used to get into my password manager.
>
> The passwords are stored on your PC as well as on the web.  The file on
> the web is used for syncing passwords, adding a new device, adding a new
> password on one of the devices etc.
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 10:56 AM Daniel Waters <df.waters at outlook.com>
> wrote:
>
> > When I got LastPass one of their selling points was that the passwords
> > could not be compromised if my PC was hacked because they were stored
> > on a LastPass server (or servers) - not on a user's PC.  Has that
> changed?
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces+df.waters=
> > outlook.com at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
> > Sent: 6 October, 2022 23:40
> > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <
> > dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Password Manager apps
> >
> > But Dan said "not on my PC" :)
> >
> > On 6 Oct 2022 at 21:15, John Colby wrote:
> >
> > > No, a local copy is on the machine.  The copy on the server is for
> > > syncing between machines.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 6:20 PM Stuart McLachlan
> > > <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote:
> > >
> > > > SO if "soneone else's  system, somewhere in the world that you
> > > > have no control over" goes down for any reason,  you loose all
> > > > your passwords? :)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 5 Oct 2022 at 21:53, Daniel Waters wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I use LastPass.  The passwords are stored on their encrypted
> > > > > server - not on my PC.
> > > > >
> > > > > Dan
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: dba-Tech
> > > > > <dba-tech-bounces+df.waters=outlook.com at databaseadvisors.com> On
> > > > > Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: 5 October, 2022 15:38 To:
> > > > > Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> > > > > <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > > > > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Password Manager apps
> > > > >
> > > > > I 8se LastPass.
> > > > >
> > > > > R
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 5:39 PM Susan Harkins
> > > > > <ssharkins at gmail.com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Do any of you use a password managing app? Avast One has one,
> > > > > > but I've not enabled it yet. Pros and cons? The one with
> > > > > > Google does well enough although I occasionally have to go in
> > > > > > and fix items.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Susan H.
> > > > > >
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