Password Saving Sites

PasturesNew

What works for me (on the basis that once you've started something you're committed to sticking with it and not looking around as it's a lot of work) was to download some software called Efficient Password Manager.... although if I looked again I'd have slightly different criteria.

With this I create a new entry and can give the site a name, put my password and username and the url where I log on - and from there I can click and it takes me to that page. But at the bottom of each record there's a big empty space where I can type and I keep notes there. Every time I log onto a site I note down the date and why I logged on, what I saw. I make notes.

I have also defined groups that the passwords can belong to and each record can belong to as many groups as I want.

I have it on a USB stick so I have it available on whatever PC I am on now, and in the future. It also makes an auto-backup and I also take a backup and keep that on my PC, so I don't lose the lot.

I use it to manage:
- over 900 site logins/passwords
- my logins/ftp details to 10-30 domains I use
- noting all my Wordpress setups on my sites

I have over 40 groups that I've defined for the type of password it is, it also has sub-groups.

I can create print outs, or PDFs of all the passwords, or any one group or sub-group.

The only thing that does annoy me is it's not a standardised format, so if I do change my mind it might be a faff to move all the data over at some future point.

But, it was free and it works for me ... so far.

fwor

PasturesNew wrote: »

download some software called Efficient Password Manager

The beauty of something like KeePass is that it's Open Source. Effectively it's written by volunteers, and reviewed by other volunteers before being released.

The bad thing about something like Efficient Password Manager (which I should add I was unaware of until a few minutes ago) is that you know nothing about the company that produces it, nor anything about their motives for giving away a free product.

As far as I can see, the domain name for the company that produces Efficient Password Manager is registered in China, but their website does not give much else away, other than some rather odd-looking english language in places.

Their product may be perfectly Ok. Or it might be passing back all of your usernames and passwords to a server somewhere in China. I have no way of knowing which.