Password Safe from Counterpane Systems (Bruce Schneier) runs under Wine and they are supposed to be working on a Linux version. At 23:57 5/13/03 -0700, you wrote: >Message: 7 >Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 17:56:32 -0700 >From: "Ed Skinner" >To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >Subject: Passwords coming out of my ears >Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > I have accounts, logins and passwords at fifty (50) [exactly!] syste= >ms=20 >that are either a) here in the office or b) "out there" on the Internet=20 >somewhere. These include hotmail.com, the company that has the mortgage o= >n my=20 >house, amazon.com, jazz-sax.com, sourceforge.net, paypay.com, and so fort= >h. > If I were a good doobie, I'd have a different password for each one = >of=20 >these, something not based on a dictionary word, something with letters a= >nd=20 >numbers, ... you know the drill. > But fifty passwords? Fifty login names? Fifty system web addresses? > Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh! > > So, what do you do to keep track of all this? Do you: >1) Have the memory of an elephant? >2) Keep the account names, system names and passwords in a [horror!] clea= >r=20 >text file you can search when needed? >3) Keep the above data encrypted but, still in a file (and under the=20 >protection of a single "master" password)? >4) Keep everything on PostIt notes stuck here and there? >5) Use only two or three passwords over and over, a "good" one for secure= >=20 >websites, a "bad" one for unsecure sites that send you the password in=20 >cleartext Email every now and then, and a "throwaway" in case all else fa= >ils? >6) ... What? > > I'm mostly in category #3 at the moment but uncomfortable having all= > my=20 >goodies protected by a single master key (on a system that is, theoretica= >lly,=20 >"safe" behind my firewall -- Oh God, now I've thrown down the gauntlet to= > the=20 >crackers in Phoenix!) > How do you deal with all these accounts, names and passwords? > >--=20 >Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/ -- Fred Wright fawright@earthlink.net