[TriLUG] Password Security

Ron Joffe rjoffe at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 23 13:39:15 EDT 2007


So this is one of those age old questions, but it seems to keep coming back:

How do you store your passwords ?

We can't seem to keep track of all of the passwords in our heads. We had a 
little discussion here with our group of developers and came up with this 
list, I am looking for additional ideas, comments, suggestions, etc. 

 - Sticky Notes on the monitor
 - Piece of loose paper
 - Spreadsheet
 - Email Folders
 - PDA / Phone
 - Little Black Book
 - Google Docs
 - Password Encrypted Flat File
 - kWallet
 - Revelation
 - Encrypted page on a local wiki

Now what do you do when you have to keep a list of passwords sync'd between a 
set of support technicians ?

What do you think is the best way to keep a long list of usernames/passwords, 
etc. ? When someone needs to give you a password, how do you transfer it? 
Email, IM, Phone, Snail Mail ?

Thanks,

Ron







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