[Discuss] Password managers

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 5/5/20 5:47 PM, Jerry Natowitz wrote:
> I've decided it is time to start using strong unique passwords on all 
> sites. 

Smart.

> What products will work on Linux/gnu, Linux/Android, and Windows 10? 
> Is the integration to the O/S, the window manager, or the web 
> browser?? Looking for something that will work transparently across 
> all the mentioned platforms, and possibly also Mac/iPhone.

I get very nervous about a password manager that aims to transparently 
let me in everywhere it can. Seems a very hard thing to get right. Bugs 
lurk in hard code. And bugs in a password manager are potentially 
catastrophic. I prefer being a manual middleman for every password 
entry; I prefer a very-offline password manager.

The result is the passwords I use most frequently I remember, so I just 
type them. The ones I use infrequently are infrequent, so I don't mind 
looking them up.

Remember: All software has bugs, password managers are not somehow immune.

-kb, the Kent who also expires his sudo password immediately, to make 
quietly tailgating in behind his use of sudo a lot harder...so he's like 
that.