A place for all your passwords

Vishveshwar Jatain's picture
Posted Mon, 07/09/2009 - 12:55am by Vishveshwar Jatain

How many times have you simply forgot your login to a site? Or, entered the wrong password for your netbanking account just to see it get blocked? Having one password for all our accounts is an ideal situation, but the restrictions that websites put on users while choosing their username/password does not always allow us to do this. Consider the login ID’s  Sam Green has at various sites:

sam.green, samg, samygamg, samsfootupurass, samsmemorysuck, sam_hates_remembering_passwords

Now, lets not even get started with the passwords that he has :P

There is quite a simple remedy for this though, an open source software called KeePass puts an end to all this mind numbing nonsense.

This nifty little tool helps you not only to save your username and passwords for multiple sites but also protect it all with a master password and export the database (of usernames/passwords) as an encrypted file.

Did I mention that it is free and open source? Official Page:  www.keepass.info

Comments

mzsade's picture

Remember password

by mzsade - 10/12/2009 - 7:07am

Doesn't the browser give the option to remember a password. And should one have to reinstall, in case of FF, one can simply copy the ~/.mozilla folder to a safe place and later paste it in the home folder of the new install.