Recommend me a pasword manager....or not.

[Salty seadog]

Recently discovered there have been data breeches of a couple of my passwords by checking on https://haveibeenpwned.com/, it can also check email addresses and is a trusted site.

What are the CC church's thoughts /experiences of password managers?

Recommend or not, free or paid for?

Over to you.

Many thanks.

ETA I would need to sync across Android, Windows and Linux (Lubuntu) devices.

 

[bruce1530]

Fundamentally, the answer is “yes”.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) explain why much better than I could.

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/what-does-ncsc-think-password-managers

As for which one to use - lastpass (free version) is as good as any.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I use keepass which is free, keeps a local encrypted copy and which you can synchronise across devices via Dropbox if you need to.

 

[Salty seadog]

I use keepass which is free, keeps a local encrypted copy and which you can synchronise across devices via Dropbox if you need to.

Would dropbox be a vulnerability here?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Would dropbox be a vulnerability here?

Nope as the file is always fully encrypted.

 

[tom73]

If not protected my a strong password then yes. Before keychain came along I used last pass free version found it to be fine. Firefox have a password manager built in. Not used it but maybe worth a go.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Pen and Ink.

But then I don't use multiple devices.

 

[yello]

I use Bitwarden, because it's free.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I use keepass which is free, keeps a local encrypted copy and which you can synchronise across devices via Dropbox if you need to.

Another vote for keepass & it was recommended to me by our sysadmin which is good enough for me

 

[Salty seadog]

Only thing with keepass is it doesn't seem to support Linux. I use Linux, Windows and Android.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Just checked & it's actually Keepassx that I use, I hold my database file on Dropbox & access it from Linux, Mac & Windows

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Only thing with keepass is it doesn't seem to support Linux. I use Linux, Windows and Android.

See bottom of https://keepass.info/download.html there are Linux variants

 

[Ming the Merciless]

If not protected my a strong password then yes. Before keychain came along I used last pass free version found it to be fine. Firefox have a password manager built in. Not used it but maybe worth a go.

Well like any password manager I use a long pass phrase rather than pass word to protect the rest.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

See bottom of https://keepass.info/download.html there are Linux variants

I've just moved to Mint from Lubuntu & it's already part of the repository to just install

 

[Crackle]

1234qwerty

Happy to help