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How do you deal with passwords? Password manager? Txt file? Do you use biometrics on devices that have them? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I was gonna ask about the biometrics part in a separate question, but its both about security, so might as well combine it in one post.

Okay so I don't use password managers. I just try to make easy to remember passwords 3-4 random words + 3-4 random numbers. ~~Online accounts can't be brute forced anyways.~~ Edit: I mean most websites have log in limits don't they? Maybe I've been mistaken?

For offline accounts, I just increase the words and numbers. For mobile I don't use biometrics, although I've been testing whether or not I want a pin + no biometrics or alphanumeric password + biometrics. I just can't decide.

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[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Local GPG key pair + https://www.passwordstore.org/ synced peer-to-peer between devices via https://syncthing.net/

So the key is always local but the password database is being synced between devices.

pass on its own is great already (it's basically just GPG encrypted text files with a good CLI frontend) but I make it even greater by using a slightly modified "passmenu" script which utilizes wofi (rofi for wayland) in dmenu mode to show a very fast popup of all your sites you have passwords stored for and by selecting it / pressing enter the pw gets copied into the clipboard.

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[–] hsl@wayfarershaven.eu 1 points 1 year ago

Recent discussion about this over on !android@lemmy.world: https://wayfarershaven.eu/post/65261

[–] hamsolo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Funny because in work I keep passwords in txt file with logins hosts etc. It is against security rules. In my personal pc I'm using password manager because I want to have everything in single place and secured a bit.

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