What password manager do you use?

alphabyte

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Like most of us these days I have a host of passwords for various sites, including of course mybroadband. A password manager is very useful in remembering the URL's and the passwords required.
For a long time I have used Roboform and have been quite satisfied with it; I even purchased the product as the free version only allows for up to 10 sites to be saved. My gripe is that the later versions cannot be purchased on a once-off basis, but require an annual fee, and that I am not prepared to do. At one stage I even went back to my earlier (purchased) version, but somehow they have made it so that it is now also subject to the 10 password limit :mad:
As a result I have been trying a few (free) alternatives such as LastPass, Keepass and Dashlane. Each of these has their limitations, e.g. only allowing two fields to be saved but some sites require a username, pin and password. I am currently using LastPass and it is reasonably okay, but falls down on some sites such as CellC where the login is via a drop-down box.
What do you guys use - have you any recommendations?
 
My brain...

For work - 2 passwords I use regularly and various others for customers infrastructure I work on regularly.
Personal - 4 different passwords. Most secure and regularly changed one used for banking and email.
 
Your brain will inherently use a pattern for your passwords. Or you will at some point use the same password on different sites.
 
I use KeePass (portable version). Quite happy with it.

They have a notes field, useful for extra things like pins, security questions etc. Login credentials that require more than a username and password is not THAT popular.
 
Your brain will inherently use a pattern for your passwords. Or you will at some point use the same password on different sites.

I normally just bash the keyboard a few times and then shorten the list of letters\characters and numbers to create a password.
I don't think I've noticed any pattern doing it that way :p
 
Password Safe.

Originally designed by cryptographic guru Bruce Schneier my feeling was if he's happy using it ... :)
 
I have just several main passwords that I use.... all memorised.

1) My Email password is a two word combination with a special character combiner - E.g. Mede8er#Ekurhuleni (Something in my house and a place where I live)
2) One strong password for my banking alone (A random string combined with a banking word) - "JA4!sYPG<G$qjv/Teller"
3) One other password for all my other Websites and various needs (A random String combined with the name of the site) -
(This means I only have to remember one password for every website, but they are all still different)

Haj(63@MY)jooD%Twit
Haj(63@MY)jooD%MyBB
Haj(63@MY)jooD%Face
Haj(63@MY)jooD%Tumblr
Haj(63@MY)jooD%Imgur
etc...
 
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