Questions tagged [password-management]
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How do I securely store and manage 180 passwords?
I have about 180 passwords for different websites and web services. They are all stored in one single password protected Excel document. As the list gets longer I am more and more concerned about its ...
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Can I use multiple URLs in the URL field of KeePass?
I am using KeePass version 2.19. What I would like to do is have more than just one URL address associated with a given user name and password.
The entry for a given website might look something like ...
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What's an efficient way to change my 200+ account passwords?
I have a lot of online accounts, web services, and so on -- personal as well as business -- so obviously(?) I use a password manager to handle them all. Specifically I use Lastpass but my question ...
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How to force Chrome to save passwords on self-signed or broken SSL?
I have searched for a way to do this and never found a good answer, though there have been tickets created in the past (#142818 & #405549).
Apparently, the chromium devs never created a chrome://...
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How can I manually add a password to Chrome password manager?
How do I manually add a password to Chrome? For some reason, it doesn't ask me if I want to save my password for a website after I log in. I think I answered No the first time that it asked me, and ...
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How safe is Firefox password manager?
I have been using the Firefox password manager for long time, but never checked/verified how secure it is.
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Disable kwallet popups from chrome
I've edited ~/.kde/share/config/kwalletrc and added
[Auto Deny]
kdewallet=Chromium
In the KDE Wallet Configuration in system settings I've unchecked "Enable the KDE wallet subsystem". This also ...
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How do you safely backup a GPG private key?
I found a very interesting CLI password manager called pass.
To use it, you generate a GPG2 key pair, and use the tool to help you store passwords in gpg2 encrypted files.
To encrypt the files (add a ...
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How does Google Chrome store passwords?
Are they encrypted in disk? How? Are they safe, for example, in the event of someone booting from a Live CD and mounting the hard disk?
How is the encryption key generated? Is it different in ...
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Best way to share certain passwords stored in Keepass?
What's the best way to share certain passwords that are stored in a Keepass database?
For example, I want to share certain Banking Passwords with a family member, but I don't want to share my work ...
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How to force Chrome to remember a password? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I force Google Chrome to remember passwords?
Chrome is not trying to remember a password on web.ebuddy.com
Is there a way to force Chrome to remember a password for this ...
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Sync Firefox and Chrome passwords?
I'm switching between Firefox and Chrome on a daily basis.
I'm tired of having to open up Firefox each time I don't remember
a Password to a website.
Is there an option to sync the saved passwords ...
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Password manager for multiple computers? [closed]
Is there a password manager that I can use on multiple computers, to remember all the passwords I use on the sites I visit?
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Is there a Way to Retrieve a Lost/Forgotten KeePass Password?
I recently decided to store all of my passwords in KeyPass Password Safe 2. I forgot my password to KeyPass.
Is there anyway to retrieve it? My assumption is no there is not for obvious reasons.
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Google Chrome: Import/Export Passwords?
I recently migrated from Windows7 to Kubuntu 10.0.4. In many ways, I'm loving the change. (I never knew it could be such a seemless process to write/test scripts!)
One of the few things that is ...
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What applications provide org.freedesktop.secrets.service
While trying out google-chrome dev and beta channels' latest version (25), I was getting a segmentation fault problem causing Chrome to crash, right after showing a message informing that it was ...
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Linux "pass" utility for multiple users
I am trying to setup a, business internal, password storage to be used by various scripts (and people). I have looked at many alternatives but the easiest to modify to achieve my goal seems to be the ...
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How to ask Firefox to suggest a password when filling out registration form on the web?
I am familiar with Safari on my Mac. Safari usually can recognize a registration form prompting for a new password. In such case, Safari automatically offers to generate a new random password.
Does ...
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KeePass: use a key file or a regular password?
I'm setting up a KeePass database and it offers the ability to use a key file, which it says is more secure because it can use a longer and more complex password but is easier to break because you ...
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Is using Git to revision KeePass database file possible?
I'm wondering if it is possible, or indeed a good/bad idea to use Git (or Mercurial) to revision the KeePass database file and share it between my co-workers, for centralized (but distributed) ...
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How to know when I last changed my Windows 10 password?
How to find out when I last changed the password for my account in Windows 10?
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samba sync password with unix password on debian wheezy
I installed samba on my server and I am trying to write a script to spare me the two steps to add user, e.g.:
adduser username
smbpasswd -a username
My smb.conf states:
# This boolean parameter ...
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Firefox keeps suggesting usernames, even though I have disabled the default password manager
I use LastPass as a password manager. I have disabled Firefox's inbuilt password manager.
LastPass has only one entry for the site I'm visiting, but Firefox still suggests many different usernames:
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KeePass justification [closed]
I personally have about 20 accounts (my personal user id on lots of machines). For shared "system" accounts, there are about 45 per environment; development, test, and production. I have access to 2 ...
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Chrome doesn't update saved passwords
Chrome has always saved my passwords and then prefilled forms. This is still working - except that if I change a password after Chrome as auto filled it then Chrome won't remember the new password. ...
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How can I force chrome to remember my passwords? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I force Google Chrome to remember passwords?
On most sites, chrome has stored my passwords, however, on one particular site (paypal.com) I can't get it to ask if I want to ...
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Should I let my browser or the site remember my password, or neither?
What are the security implications of letting a web browser remember log-in information for me? Should I let a browser remember, like Firefox or Chrome, or should I let the site remember?
I'm sure ...
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Where are my Firefox passwords saved?
In a fear-driven reaction to recent hacking events I thought over my password strategy. The basic question is are my saved passwords in FireFox safe from remote access?
I.e. where are they kept, are ...
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Is it safe to store my passwords in an encrypted .7z/.zip by 7-zip?
Here is what I do:
Type in all kinds of passwords in an excel file (.xlsx)
Zip it with a password by 7-zip
AES 256
length > 8
combination of A-Z a-z 0-9 symbols
different from any other ...
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gpg2 - Unusable public key -No assurance key belongs to named user
I'm using pass as my main password manager(which uses gpg2), but since a few days i can't create new keys, I always get the error message:
There is no assurance this key belongs to the named user
[...
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firefox: remember passwords for all sites
When logging in on some websites, these sites don't offer (I suspect intentionally) to remember passwords. This happens not only on public websites, but also in my intranet (remote web consoles, Dell ...
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Does Windows 7 allow auto-login with a stored password, like TweakUI did?
The TweakUI powertoy for Windows XP had an option to auto-login. It stored your password and did the login for you. This was useful, since you kept password protection, but had login programs loaded ...
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Sensible Password Policy
I've been tasked with putting together the company security policy. As part of this I want to define what is a sensible but secure password (length, characters etc), how often they should be changed, ...
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Why is LastPass Pocket not recommended? [closed]
Just noticed on LastPass Pocket download and support pages, it's mentioned that
LastPass Portable is recommended over using LastPass Pocket.
However, no explanation is provided on any of those ...
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How to get passwords from Opera Password manager?
How I get my passwords from Password manager at Opera?
Is there easy solution? I mean like firefox style.
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Can the Firefox password manager store and manage passwords for multiple sub-domains or different URLs in the same domain?
Can the Firefox password manager store and manage passwords for multiple sub-domains, or for multiple URLs in the same domain? The default behavior of Firefox is that all requests for *.domain.com ...
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Different SSH/Login Password From SUDO Password
I'd like to use a different password to elevate my user to sudo status than the password I use to login (either via GUI, shell, or SSH) to my account. Is this possible?
EDIT:
Since setting the root ...
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Force Firefox to remember passwords for the sites that don't let users save them
With Firefox 3.6.10 on Windows XP (I haven't tried other combinations), it seems like some websites prevent visitors from saving their password. That happens a lot with bank websites (for obvious ...
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Is there something like gnome-keyring for Windows7?
I want to use my login password to autounlock a passwordmanager. Is there something which makes this possible and fairly secure?
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save mysql logins
I have to log into multiple MYSQL DB's on different hosts via mysql cli. is it possible to save these logins so I don't have to trackdown/remember the credentials?
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How to use password managers without using the clipboard?
I use Keepass, but to type the passwords I need to copy them to the clipboard, which makes the password vulnerable to interception.
I see that equivalent applications for android avoid this issue by ...
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How can I view saved passwords in Internet Explorer?
In Firefox and Chrome I can see the passwords that I have saved using Options or Preferences.
Is there any way to do this in Internet Explorer?
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"Do you want to save this password" dialog disappears too quick
Chrome Version Version 25.0.1364.172 m
Operating System (Windows 8
I seem to be having a problem with Google Chrome saving my passwords. I have tried for a while now to save my Lycos chat password ...
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MySQL password restrictions?
I installed MySQL 5.5 on a fresh VM running Ubuntu 14 LTS through apt-get. During installation, I set a root user password generated by a password manager. After installation, I could not access any ...
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Password memorization and autocomplete heuristics in Chrome
What are Chrome's heuristics to decide to save login form data and autocomplete them on the next visit?
If Chrome isn't saving the credentials on a particular form, what could the reasons be? I know ...
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How to display password policy information for a user (Ubuntu)?
Ubuntu Documentation > Ubuntu 9.04 > Ubuntu Server Guide > Security > User Management states that there is a default minimum password length for Ubuntu:
By default, Ubuntu requires a minimum
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how to use shift+tab on keepass auto type
I need to automate the login to an application that start with the cursor on the password.
I want to use shift + tab to move on the username before actually starting the password sequence.
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How do I Disable Windows 10 Password Hint?
When I first created my user account on Windows 10, I was forced to add a password hint as well.
I have tried to remove the password hint, through the Windows 10 settings, but I have been unable to ...
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Does Keepass protect passwords from malicious software like viruses?
If a computer got infected with a virus or a trojan and the user interacted with Keepass, is there a chance that the malicious software would be able to get the password database?
In other words: ...
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