Storing multiple passwords & logins

[Mr.Whippy]

And before someone yells "that's not safe!"

It may be safe, but doesn't sound very practical to me.

My Keepass password safe on my laptop is encrypted, stored on a TrueCrypt volume which needs my fingerprint to mount and it has a master password and requires a key file which is on a USB stick I keep with my car key.

So, I have all my passwords to hand and no worries about it getting into the wrong hands should my laptop get stolen/lost.

[ratewhore]

I remember the important ones.

Incidentally, who has their bank account linked to their paypal account? Given the security controls on online banking, paypal offers only a password between a malicious user, and the ability to withdraw money directly from a bank account.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

It may be safe, but doesn't sound very practical to me.

My Keepass password safe on my laptop is encrypted, stored on a TrueCrypt volume which needs my fingerprint to mount and it has a master password and requires a key file which is on a USB stick I keep with my car key.

So, I have all my passwords to hand and no worries about it getting into the wrong hands should my laptop get stolen/lost.

Won't work for me, I make a point of not carrying my laptop where possible.

Have you thought about how those you leave behind would handle your death?

[hyperD]

I just use "password" - works every time for me.

And everyone else apparantly.

[The Wikir Man]

Have you thought about how those you leave behind would handle your death?

I must admit that is one thing that concerns me - I do all the finances, all the business finances, the car insurance, the house insurance etc. all online, and my wife would have no idea where to even start with it.

I can only hope that she can guess my password! (And also hope that the router doesn't need rebooting, as she doesn't know the password to that, either)

[Lumiere]

Firefox + Xmarks. Simples.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

I must admit that is one thing that concerns me - I do all the finances, all the business finances, the car insurance, the house insurance etc. all online, and my wife would have no idea where to even start with it.

I can only hope that she can guess my password! (And also hope that the router doesn't need rebooting, as she doesn't know the password to that, either)

An old friend of mine died recently and his widow saw some of that. I was admin contact on his domains so I could change owner to her without any problem, but not everything was so smooth. Fortunately she is not dependent on his money so she can wait for the legal system to take its course.

I had a note in my diary to do the same in reverse, make him one of the contacts on my domains. I suppose I can cross that off now

Seriously, an impenetrable mess and lack of access to money would be an awful thing to leave her with, on top of your passing. It can be trouble enough: insurance may not come through fast enough to keep the mortgage paid, for example.

[Sysman]

An old friend of mine died recently and his widow saw some of that. I was admin contact on his domains so I could change owner to her without any problem, but not everything was so smooth. Fortunately she is not dependent on his money so she can wait for the legal system to take its course.

I had a note in my diary to do the same in reverse, make him one of the contacts on my domains. I suppose I can cross that off now

Seriously, an impenetrable mess and lack of access to money would be an awful thing to leave her with, on top of your passing. It can be trouble enough: insurance may not come through fast enough to keep the mortgage paid, for example.

This came up somewhere else recently. The gist of the advice was to enable the executor of your will to access your password stash. The corollary to that is that you may need to appoint someone who is technically competent with computer stuff for that role, or nominate a technically able person to support the actual executor.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

This came up somewhere else recently. The gist of the advice was to enable the executor of your will to access your password stash. The corollary to that is that you may need to appoint someone who is technically competent with computer stuff for that role, or nominate a technically able person to support the actual executor.

The executor can nominate someone, the important thing is a relevant survivor knowing the passwords.

[xoggoth]

I use excel but as well as password I encrypt it using vba. Also for stuff that needs to be really secure I mostly put hints I can understand rather than actual values like my "1st 5 old phone number"