[Discuss] Password managers

[Joe Polcari]

FYI last pass will offer a long random secure password to you as an option

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> On May 5, 2020, at 6:56 PM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
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> 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. 
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> Smart.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Remember: All software has bugs, password managers are not somehow immune.
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> -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.
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