How do you remember passwords
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- Kieran Huggins
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I have a pool of common passwords, one that I use for sites I don't particularly care about such as my spam mail account (hotmail) and one-time register sites if I am looking for a driver or something, (incidentally I use the same hotmail account for those registrations.) on only the utmost important (to me) sites, I use unique passwords, which I just remember, and for things like fora I tend to use the same password.
For (network) domain passwords, I do what every self respecting geek does.. I use a strong password with a number on the end that I increment everytime I have to update it.
For (network) domain passwords, I do what every self respecting geek does.. I use a strong password with a number on the end that I increment everytime I have to update it.
And those domain passwords. You remember them as well? Or do you write them down?Jenk wrote:I have a pool of common passwords, one that I use for sites I don't particularly care about such as my spam mail account (hotmail) and one-time register sites if I am looking for a driver or something, (incidentally I use the same hotmail account for those registrations.) on only the utmost important (to me) sites, I use unique passwords, which I just remember, and for things like fora I tend to use the same password.
For (network) domain passwords, I do what every self respecting geek does.. I use a strong password with a number on the end that I increment everytime I have to update it.
For me it would be impossible to remember them all. Not that I made/maintain that many websites, but 20-30 is enough to not be able to remember them all. And on top of that, most websites have a login for the server, one for the CMS, for the DB, maybe for another system. All those must be strong, unique. Meaning hard to remember.
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I do backup dailyMordred wrote:Ever heard of backup?Kieran Huggins wrote:...but what if the program breaks? How do you deal with loss of access to all your accounts? What a pain. The added security just isn't worth it for me.
What if you switch OS? PITA!
Sync to laptop? PITA!
Access from elsewhere? PITA!
Well, KeePass has ports for all the major OS-es, including Windows Mobile (Pocket PC), and it has export and import features. It can be carried on a USB stick (or PPC, as I do). As far as portability is concerned it is pretty well-suited.
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I had a thought the other day about smurfs... if they're 3 apples high and live in mushrooms, those must be some big-smurfing mushrooms! Maybe it's an alternate universe where scale has no meaning, like where they set the new transformers movie. But I digress....
I had a thought the other day about smurfs... if they're 3 apples high and live in mushrooms, those must be some big-smurfing mushrooms! Maybe it's an alternate universe where scale has no meaning, like where they set the new transformers movie. But I digress....
I only have one domain password - I don't mean domain as in my password for jenk.co.uk, I mean network password at work which is synch'd with every system we use at work.matthijs wrote:And those domain passwords. You remember them as well? Or do you write them down?Jenk wrote:I have a pool of common passwords, one that I use for sites I don't particularly care about such as my spam mail account (hotmail) and one-time register sites if I am looking for a driver or something, (incidentally I use the same hotmail account for those registrations.) on only the utmost important (to me) sites, I use unique passwords, which I just remember, and for things like fora I tend to use the same password.
For (network) domain passwords, I do what every self respecting geek does.. I use a strong password with a number on the end that I increment everytime I have to update it.
For me it would be impossible to remember them all. Not that I made/maintain that many websites, but 20-30 is enough to not be able to remember them all. And on top of that, most websites have a login for the server, one for the CMS, for the DB, maybe for another system. All those must be strong, unique. Meaning hard to remember.