Questions tagged [password-management]

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How do I securely store and manage 180 passwords?

I have about 180 passwords for different websites and web services. They are all stored in one single password protected Excel document. As the list gets longer I am more and more concerned about its security. Just how secure, or should I say…
Samir
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Can I use multiple URLs in the URL field of KeePass?

I am using KeePass version 2.19. What I would like to do is have more than just one URL address associated with a given user name and password. The entry for a given website might look something like this... Title google User Name email Password…
Samir
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What's an efficient way to change my 200+ account passwords?

I have a lot of online accounts, web services, and so on -- personal as well as business -- so obviously(?) I use a password manager to handle them all. Specifically I use Lastpass but my question applies to any and all: Given the Heartbleed problem…
Torben Gundtofte-Bruun
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How to force Chrome to save passwords on self-signed or broken SSL?

I have searched for a way to do this and never found a good answer, though there have been tickets created in the past ( #142818 & #405549 ). Apparently, the chromium devs never created a chrome://flags override for "broken" SSL with password…
B. Shea
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How can I manually add a password to Chrome password manager?

How do I manually add a password to Chrome? For some reason, it doesn't ask me if I want to save my password for a website after I log in. I think I answered No the first time that it asked me, and now it's become a pain in the neck.
Milkyway
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How safe is Firefox password manager?

I have been using the Firefox password manager for long time, but never checked/verified how secure it is.
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Disable kwallet popups from chrome

I've edited ~/.kde/share/config/kwalletrc and added [Auto Deny] kdewallet=Chromium In the KDE Wallet Configuration in system settings I've unchecked "Enable the KDE wallet subsystem". This also seems to add: [Auto Deny] kdewallet[$d] However I'm…
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How do you safely backup a GPG private key?

I found a very interesting CLI password manager called pass . To use it, you generate a GPG2 key pair, and use the tool to help you store passwords in gpg2 encrypted files. To encrypt the files (add a new password), it uses the public key. To…
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How does Google Chrome store passwords?

Are they encrypted in disk? How? Are they safe, for example, in the event of someone booting from a Live CD and mounting the hard disk? How is the encryption key generated? Is it different in Windows and Linux?
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Best way to share certain passwords stored in Keepass?

What's the best way to share certain passwords that are stored in a Keepass database? For example, I want to share certain Banking Passwords with a family member, but I don't want to share my work passwords (or my personal Keepass database password)
Dan Esparza
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Sync Firefox and Chrome passwords?

I'm switching between Firefox and Chrome on a daily basis. I'm tired of having to open up Firefox each time I don't remember a Password to a website. Is there an option to sync the saved passwords between these browsers?
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How to force Chrome to remember a password?

Possible Duplicate: Can I force Google Chrome to remember passwords? Chrome is not trying to remember a password on web.ebuddy.com Is there a way to force Chrome to remember a password for this website? The attribute autocomplete is not present.
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What applications provide org.freedesktop.secrets.service

While trying out google-chrome dev and beta channels' latest version (25) , I was getting a segmentation fault problem causing Chrome to crash, right after showing a message informing that it was unable to locate a .service file that provides…
lmcanavals
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Password manager for multiple computers?

Is there a password manager that I can use on multiple computers, to remember all the passwords I use on the sites I visit?
James Magruder
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Is there a Way to Retrieve a Lost/Forgotten KeePass Password?

I recently decided to store all of my passwords in KeyPass Password Safe 2. I forgot my password to KeyPass. Is there anyway to retrieve it? My assumption is no there is not for obvious reasons.
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