3 Comments for Password Manager

• Jun 20 2009 10:07am
  K H (Visitor)
  I'm looking for a new password manager, so this caught my eye. It looks like only three fields are available for any one entry. What I can't determine - for sure - from either the description on this page or the screenshots, is if there is a way to store the additional information that some sites require. Often, more than one password must be entered, and financial institutions require answers to questions. While those answers should be easy to recall, some of us must create fictional answers because we come from very small families and/or don't remember our first grade teacher's name, or moved often enough that there is no answer to: What is the name of the street you grew up on? So - we sometimes forget them.
  
  Another thing I'd like to know: is there a way to separate different types of websites, banks, credit cards, forums, bill pays, etc. or must they all be lumped in together?
• Jun 20 2009 7:02pm
  Rick Truell (Visitor)
  K H, you might want to take a look at KeyPass (http://keepass.info/). I've used it for a while now and like it a lot. It's supposedly capable of automatically handling bank sites with multiple login screens but I haven't gotten around to checking that out yet. Regardless of how well that functionality works, each entry has a big text box in which you can enter information, such as answers to questions as you describe above. And since the database is encrypted and password-protected, that information can't be found by casually looking at the file. That same text box can be used to modify the way that KeePass automatically sends login info...you can include things like tabs (to move from field to field) and spaces (to de-select the "remember me on this computer" type thing). As to your other question about PM, KeePass comes with one major category and several sub-categories in which to group entries, and you can create additional categories or sub-categories as needed.
  
  While KeePass is a Windows program, it can apparently be run on Linux, Mac and even the *BSD's using Wine or Mono, and there are ports for several portable devices such as the Blackberry and on the PalmOS! KeePass can also be entended...there is a long list of plugins available. And *all* of this for *free*...KeyPass is open source and thus the source code is available for downloading.
• Jun 21 2009 10:23am
  K H (Visitor)
  Thanks, Rick.

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