I use 1Password with dropbox sync. Excellent. I even have a smart folder that tells me how many of my passwords I still have to change from my (ex) default password. I no longer have just one or two. On the downside, if my phone, mac and dropbox are all wiped off the face of the planet, I won't be able to order any more books from Amazon, or change my passwords because I won't be able to access my email...
The only limitation I have is that I have to use various differnt computers at work. I tend to look up passwords on my phone and type them manually. I could of course go to the drop box website and use cut and paste from there, but as I don't have absolute control over how the various computers are used by others, I dislike doing that. Bit silly really, because if there is a key logger installed my method doesn't work anyway. ---------------------------------------------------------- Manor Park Medical Centre www.manorparksurgery.com Tel 01323482301 East Sussex Local Medical Committee (Chair) www.sslmcs.co.uk/ Tel 01372389270 ---------------------------------------------------------- Have your say about NHS market reforms Visit www.lookafterournhs.org.uk On 27 September 2010 10:44, Toby Leighton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Group, > > I have been using keychain more and more heavily recently, to generate > random 12-15 character passwords and use those for website passwords. > For those of you who haven't explored it you can copy and paste your > strong passwords into the forms without ever having them revealed on > screen and I recommend everyone should make unique passwords for every > service they use in a way such as this. > > However now I'm starting to worry I may be relying on keychain almost > too much, because if my powerbook breaks or gets stolen, so do all my > passwords (at least the thief wont have access to them, but the > problem is neither will I...) At work we use keepassX, but it has > problems with more than one person accessing it at once, so there tend > to be lots of copies of our keychain all over the place, and it isn't > very integrated like keychain, you have to run it when you want to get > something in or out of it. There is also 1passwd for mac and iphone > which I suspect a few group members might use and could provide some > opinions on. > > Could I just copy my keychain into dropbox and would my lost keychain > worry be over, and is there any way to open or view a keychain from a > non-osx computer? Is putting such a critical file in a relatively > public place ever a good idea? > > Toby Leighton > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <smug%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
