WTD: Password Manager

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Looking for recommendations for a good, easy to use, modern password
manager. Any ieas please?

Many thanks.

T. Denford.
 
I use PINs.
http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/pins.html
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Been using this one for the last couple of years and then all of a sudden
tonight whilst using Firefox and with PIN's running, Firefox crashed, PIN's
exited and when I re-accessed my password file, everything had gone!!! ...
0kb!!

Good job I had a backup. So anyway, now this has happened, I just feel a
little nervous now about using PIN's and was looking for an alternative
really.

Thanks anyway Lars.
 
T. Denford said:
Been using this one for the last couple of years and then all of a sudden
tonight whilst using Firefox and with PIN's running, Firefox crashed, PIN's
exited and when I re-accessed my password file, everything had gone!!! ...
0kb!!

Good job I had a backup. So anyway, now this has happened, I just feel a
little nervous now about using PIN's and was looking for an alternative
really.
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Oh... thanks for the warning.

Was the .BAK file also lost? I guess no program is 100% crash-free :-(
Better remember those backups.
 
Looking for recommendations for a good, easy to use, modern password
manager. Any ieas please?

Many thanks.

T. Denford.
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I like PINs4 [http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/pins.html]. This version
includes a hotkey for inserting userid and password into the corresponding
fields (whether on a webpage or elsewhere) and pressing the OK button. So
far I've not been able to find any other freeware application that does
this as efficiently / easily as PINs. With most others you have to copy and
paste paste userid and password separately. PINs doesn't do it
automatically like Roboform, but Roboform's free version limits the number
of passwords you can store.
 
Oh... thanks for the warning.

Was the .BAK file also lost? I guess no program is 100% crash-free :-(
Better remember those backups.
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Lars,

I had it set to not make .bak copies on save. Think maybe I have learnt my
lesson there!! As I say, I normally backup all my importnat files to CD
very week so at least I had the backup from a few days ago.
 
Looking for recommendations for a good, easy to use, modern password
manager. Any ieas please?

Many thanks.

T. Denford.
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Thanks for the suggestions everyone.
 
How about http://www.ivory.org/whisper.html
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The problem with whisper (or the version I tried) is that it is very
tedious to use IMO once you start getting dozens (hundreds) of
passwords. As far as searching is concerned.

What would be good would be a search function so that if looking for
an entry that had "x" in that only those "hits" containing "x" would
show up. Or "xa" only those entries with xa. I don't know if the
current version has this.

Perhaps there is another password manager with this capability ?

Regards, John.

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T. Denford said:
Looking for recommendations for a good, easy to use, modern password
manager. Any ieas please?

Many thanks.

T. Denford.
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Oubliette is the best I have come across.

http://www.tranglos.com/free/oubliette_main.html

It will store a list of accounts with information such as account name,
associated password, URL, and free-form notes. You can easily access the
information, copy to clipboard or export to a variety of formats. There is a
powerful search facility with filtered output (i.e. view only the records
that satisfy your search criteria). You can also filter by categories that
you assign to accounts when you create or edit them. Oubliette offers a
number of ways to transfer account names and passwords to the browser: via
the clipboard, through drag-and-drop, or by automated form filling.

Oubliette uses secure, mathematically strong ciphers to protect your data
against unauthorized access. A typical use for a password manager is to
store passwords, credit card numbers, and other small, secret pieces of
information. This relieves you from having to remember all those passwords,
at the cost of having to remember just one: the password used to access your
Oubliette file.
 
Recently, I upgraded from a Win98Se computer to a
new XP system.

On the XP system, Oubliette would not recognize my
password. Fortunately, I had the passwords etc
stored in PWsafe and this transfered without
any problems. PWsafe has much the same functionality
as Oubliette. URL is http://passwoedsafe.sourceforge.net
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I recently upgraded from ME to XP and do not seem to have had the same
problem....yet! But I will have a look at PWsafe to be, well, safe-I guess!

Thank you.
 
Looking for recommendations for a good, easy to use, modern password
manager. Any ieas please?
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Password Corral - the best


Jack Purvis
[remove the 4 x's (xxxx) before sending me an email]
 
Looking for recommendations for a good, easy to use, modern password
manager. Any ieas please?

Many thanks.

T. Denford.
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Probably none of the above but I use a plain text file inside of an
encrypted zip file using a "good" password. Same file can be accessed on
every system and OS I use and no vendor lockin or dependancies. Thats more
important to me than integration with browsers etc.
 
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