Password Manager Discussion.

I must have read right past that. I looked at that page right before posting... I wonder why it just now asked me after today's update if I wanted to use it.

 

I don't know how much anyone else cares... I just checked my installation on my desktop at home and it was on the August release. I checked the settings and the Windows Hello section was nowhere to be found. I updated to the latest and once again, after I entered my password it asked if I wanted to enable Windows Hello support. So despite claims that it was added 2 builds ago, I was not presented with any opportunity to enable it before today on the latest. Ultimately I am happy with this update as I have been hoping they would do this.

 

What do you think about heylogin, which doesn't rely on a master password but on your smartphone and/or hardware security key? They also explain why LastPass isn't good enough, once your password database is stolen from the cloud.

https://www.heylogin.com/en
https://www.heylogin.com/en/post/2fa-useless-for-lastpass

 

Don't know enough about it to have an opinion. As I'm happy with my current solution I probably won't explore it too much unless that changes. Don't get me started on LastPass. Former customer. Never again.

 

Never heard about it, but checked their website after seeing your question.

Their approach looks very similar to using a passkey to log in to a password manager (which 1Password currently is beta testing). For a moment I thought Heylogin might be safer, but apparently they also sync private keys via Apple or Google, so no difference after all. In fact, I hope they actually use passkeys, an industry standard, instead of coming up with their own crypto, which usually turns out to be less safe.

What really worries me is that admins can “connect” new phones. Do they have access to your private key?

 

Was it the security breaches that put you off?

 

Greetings,

I am joining a part time job in a small business that has many different online accounts thereby requiring some tracking of passwords. The owners are older individuals and are currently storing all there passwords in a word or excel document on their laptop with a copy in their email.

I know there are various positions on the use of a password manager, which one, offline vs. online etc.

The computers at the job are all operating Windows.

Any advice please on how to securely store and manage about 20-25 user ids and passwords

Thank you

 

Perfect. Great program !

 

That and tripling the price.

 

Security breaches put me off. Next week I will be in the process of switching to RoboForm. I will not be downloading the passwords from LastPass (Free) and uploading them to RoboForm. I'll be doing it the long way, one password account at a time and then change all passwords in the new RoboForm account. When done, which will take awhile to do 100's of passwords, I will delete my LastPass account, done , finito with LastPass!

 

Yeah, when I left LastPass I was sure to delete my data. If not someone would have stolen it by now.

 

Same here.
I've been happy with 1Password for some time now.

 

I started out just using around 10 passwords that I had memorized but I started working for a company that gave me free access to Keeper and I was the admin for the keeper account, so I've become quite partial to them. I've been using them for around 3 years now without any issues, and all of my passwords are different.

 

Sticky Password 8.8.2.1579

→ SP Changelogs.

 

I have to say that RoboForm has come a long way since I last used it in 2016 on my Mac. Easy to use and navigate now. I've had problems with some account passwords using LastPass. Using RoboForm, no problems with any accounts. Almost finished transferring passwords to RoboForm before I dump LastPass.

 

Be sure to have them delete your data and close your account so there is nothing to steal the next time they get hacked.

 

1Password officially supports passkeys (no longer in beta) since yesterday:

https://blog.1password.com/save-use-passkeys-web-ios/

Which other password managers support passkeys?

 

I deleted all that was in my LastPass Vault, notes, passwords etc. Then I deleted the account. I've read somewhere it takes 30 days for LastPass to delete files on their system even if you delete the account. Who knows with this company, they probably never delete your files. I'm in the process now of changing all my passwords again on RoboForm. What a PITA LastPass turned out to be. Never again!

 

Does anyone use the passwords generated by the browser? I've used Firefox's a few times and they seem to rival third party in length and complexity. Still using 1Password's random generator primarily, then storing on Notepad and then updated and kept offline.

A little cumbersome but whatever.

 

And I thought I was doing an overkill with 25 characters.

 

The thing I don't like about Firefox passwords is that anyone that has access to your PC can easily view them in plain text. I realize that the first part is already a fail but why make it easy?

 

I had to get in contact with RoboForm Support to figure out how to print all my data I put in. Sent in Support Ticket. Ticket answered in less than 4 hours. Not bad for Support on a Sunday evening. Data printed.

 

That is impressive.