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You should really use a password manager so you always have a secure and different password for each site
I recommend KeePass if you want to save your password locally
Or if you want something cloud based then I recommend Bitwarden You can even host your own instance
switched from LastPass to Bitwarden and I couldn't look left or right
Keepassxc for storage/backup and then I let the browser save the passwords I use. I like this setup.
1Password family account for my partner and I. Super handy to have a shared vault for household things.
I also use Bitwarden. I would recommend it to anyone who can benefit from a cloud-based password manager because the basic functionality is free and the more advanced features (premium, family) are very affordable.
Using Bitwarden safely will make your digital life safer, but it will most likely be more complicated than it is now. You will need to:
You can think about increasing your safety/convenience step by step by keeping a book of password (which can be lost, so has to be kept secure and probably make backup) with
I’d say they’re pretty much necessary so you can have unique, complex passwords.
I’m currently test driving Proton’s new password manager, I’ve been using 1Password for ages.
Use whatever but also use 2fa as well for every important account that you have.
After using one for like 8 years I really don't know how people have the time/energy to make up and remember all their own passwords
I've used LastPass in the past but now I use bitwarden, gets the job done
Bitwarden, open-source, free, and awesome!!!!!
I've used 1Password for years. Works well on all my devices (MacBook and Samsung Galaxy phone). I'd absolutely recommend you use one.
Not only are they great for handling complex passwords, but a benefit I've not seen mentioned here is that they are a way of just keeping track of just how many sites and accounts you've registered with.
For example - You buy one product once from an online store, save a password so you can monitor the order status but never use that site again. Before I used 1Password I'd just have forgotten I'd even used that site. But now I can just look down my 1password account and see a whole list of all these passwords and accounts ive created. And there's loads. You forget just how many online accounts and passwords you have out there.
I use KeePass (more specifically KeePassXC). I manually copy my password files around like a caveman but I don't mind. At least my kdbx files are not accessible easily.
What are my thoughts on a password manager?
I think it’s both a good thing, and a crutch. I feel the fact that most services are rendered unusable without an account is sad, and with the 100’s of accounts one is expected to have a password manager is sadly needed if you can’t memorize a password or can make passwords with a consistent pass phrase.
Do I use one?
Nope, I have a password system which is good enough for most accounts that’s always more than 7 character long and unique for each account without being lost to me. The only time it has failed as when my work decided to have us change our passwords every quarter, and I ran out of password ideas.
Yes, and Bitwarden. Strong master password, with 2FA, and randomly generated passwords for the rest. For deeply personal apps such as banking I do have another localized system though. I moved on from LastPass and never looked back.
I've been a KeePass user for over a decade and it's always been good to me, especially when using Box and OneDrive to sync it between devices. The ecosystem is great with enough plugins and support to make it fit your use case on any modern OS.
Can't recommend it enough. Especially over other options that are offered by a commercial company (LastPass for example). Not only because you're intently placing your trust in them to not expose your data and keep it secure, but also because you're giving them a lot of leverage to turn around and hold your passwords for ransom at some point in the future (when they IPO for instance, as a popular example) or lock you out after they fold for whatever reason.
I use KeePassXC and synchronise it with syncthing. This allows me to keep it off devices I have no control over (OneDrive servers) and also allows me to have per device version history.
I used to use BitWarden but switched to 1Password about a year ago once I decided to buy a business account for my department at work (which gives every user a free family account)
1Password is fantastic. It stores more than passwords, it's fine tuned to do that, but really can be used to store anything securely. The dev team uses it to share secure .env variables and API keys for example.
One of the best features though is the ability to share secured links to VIEW passwords outside of your network. When a coworker asks me to share an account password I don't just copy and paste the username and password over email. I click share in 1Password and shoot them a link that only they can view (using email 2fa). I can also make more open links to shared credentials that expire (or until I expire those links myself).
The phone app works great and once you get it set up on one device it's easy to configure it on others.
They're much more than passwords managers nowadays, they're secrets managers. You can't store sensitive info like passport info, insurance cards, etc in a way that you know is safe if you make sure to use a unique and strong password as well as 2FA.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2android.keepass2android
Been using this for years. Hosted via ssh on my server in a ovh data center. Fingerprint access and every single account with a random password.
I can't imagine not having a password manager. I even got my mom to switch to bitwarden. I'm not sure if I just don't know how to do it, but the only thing I wish I could do with bitwarden is share a password with another bitwarden user.
1Password for years, never had any issues.
So happy I got 1Password set up and it has treated me right during the years I’ve used it. I wish my parents had such a thing. They have all the passwords written on a sheet of paper that sits under the keyboard. Like the digital version of car keys up in the visor.
Any security researcher worth there salt says to use one .Not sure what the question is. Bitwarden and 1pass are general good recommendations.
Bitwarden is great and I don't know how I could live without it anymore.
KeePass. Putting your passwords on someone else's webserver is just asking for trouble.
If you are not using a password manager you are doing it wrong.
Butwarden. Always Bitwarden. Just like almost everyone else in here it seems like.
I absolutely use one and regret I didn't use one earlier. I remember so often how I had to reset my passwords for different sites. Now every password I super complex because I don't have to remember it.
I couldn't live without one these days. I personally use Bitwarden. I have tried most of the other manager suggested in this thread. They each their own benefits. I would recommend one of the hosted services for most people (1password, Bitwarden, not LastPass). I came to prefer Bitwarden for their combination of features and openness. I have self hosted it in the past, but these days just use their hosted service.
There are a lot of side benefits to using one besides just remembering your usernames and passwords for you too.
Well, shit. I don't use a password manager but now I feel like I should lol. Gonna check out bitwarden I guess.
My mom would use the same password for everything or she would mix it up a little tiny bit.
Her passwords were like.
Rainbow2002! rainbow2003 RAINBOW!!!
It was a different word from rainbow, but that's just an example.
I got her using two factor with Google with a really good password and she's using the built-in Google password manager. Now all of her passwords are 20+ random strings instead of a single word with different numbers at the end.
I think that's a much better system than what she was using before.