Getting into Password Minder
March 26, 2006
I hope Rocky doesn’t see this. But I’ve had enough of forgetting passwords and password reset e-mails taking hours and sometimes days to be sent. So I have downloaded and installed Password Minder by Keith Brown over at Pluralsight.
The issue came to a head when I was having a _secure_ IM conversation with one of our infrastructure guys – Derrick Buckley. Derrick was giving me about my 1000th unique username/password combination to remember and he himself wondered whether I would be able to remember.
Being an honest kinda guy, I said no – and he suggested Password Minder. So far I have about twenty passwords safely tucked away behind my super password (30–40 characters) and backups of the password file are taking place every week.
March 27, 2006 at 12:00 am
I’m a big fan (and user) of PasswordSafe (originally developed by Bruce Schneier.)
I’ve even taken it to Readify courses on a USB stick.
I find the combination of PWSafe and Sneakemail is invaluable.
April 1, 2006 at 12:00 am
Mitch,
What you really need is Secret Server! Get it for the whole Readify team. Heck, we might even throw in some free licenses for all you “influential” types!
Give it a try – I would love to hear you feedback.
It is perfect for technical and development teams.
http://thesecretserver.com
I think Darren Neimke is going to do a review of it for us soon – so he may already be playing with it …
Cheers!
J