On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Stuart Krivis <[email protected]> wrote:
> I used Password Safe for a long time and then switched to Keepass a few > years ago. We use it at work too. (Both of these run just fine on Linux, > either through ports or as Windows binaries with Wine or Mono.) > The problem I keep running into with password managers is that the more portable they are, the less integrated they are; especially with clipboard syncing, it's less than ideal to use the clipboard to relay passwords between the password manager and an application, and if possible I'd prefer to limit the window system's involvement (granting that at some point the password will appear as window system events...). But applications such as Keepass don't integrate well with browsers (I did find one plugin for Chrome but it appears to be system dependent). This is especially annoying since I am being pulled back into Solaris-based ecosystems where it's pointless to expect native password management. Since my primary systems are OS X, I'm still using 1Password as my password manager; 1PasswordAnywhere, while less than ideal because of clipboard involvement, works on any platform with a browser that supports Javascript. (I could imagine Javascript interface enhancements which would improve the general level of system integration --- but do not particularly trust the idea in general because of other ways such enhancements could be used.) (There is actually a program which attempts to provide native 1Password integration for Linux and which looks like it would be easily ported to other X11 systems. It's still very early alpha, though, and works rather poorly with the number of passwords / accounts I have. I'm also a bit dubious about how it's hooked in; I'd prefer it used grabs instead of abusing the RECORD extension. http://icculus.org/1pass/ I haven't decided yet whether I want to invest effort into trying to make it saner.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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