Where I work 'Single Sign On' doesn't live up to its name; many of us spend the first 5 minutes of each day signing into things, waiting for the 2FA code, entering it, then rinse and repeating for a half-dozen apps.
Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
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Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#182Around 300 at this point, sans any deleted ones. I don't think I know a single password anymore, since they're all randomized and separate for each site. > Obviously, anything with OAuth is "bundled" into my Google account. Maybe it's just me, but I try to never use centralized identity providers (outside of things that I really don't care about) and use separate e-mail auth whenever possible, across multiple e-mail…
Similar, around 290 personal accounts. In addition comes the logins and such for various internal services like Home Assistant, PiHole etc. Total over 400 in my password manager.
I keep wishing for something better.
A great start would be to reduce friction, by having some standardized interop between browsers and a password manager. Like, my browser shouldn't know or care about passwords, it should just mediate the authentication request to my chosen password manager through some standardized means.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#183My keepass says 484, but I have a feeling there's duplicates. I really need to curate these better.
Hah! Password count cousins! I'm 484 in lastpass.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a case for that even if you just have 5 important accounts. If the account matters, give it a long random password.
There's an unfortunate correlation between how long and complex my password is and how I often I have to manually type it in. Microsoft are really good in this regard, and you almost never have to type in your password once you have the Authenticator set up. Google isn't too bad, once you're logged in, but you still sometimes have to type out your password in a situation where having access to your password manager i…
IIRC, Treasury.gov makes you enter your password by clicking buttons on a virtual, on-screen keyboard. Ugh.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#185751 entries in my KeePassXC database. I'm sure a number of those accounts are for long-dead sites, and many of the rest are throwaways I don't expect to use again.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#186Why keep score? If you have a password manager, the number is irrelevant. But: KeePass 2052. Cheating because I work for an agency... so we have hundreds of clients' passwords to store and selectively distribute to the team.
Agreed. This is utterly baffling question. You might as well ask me how many grains there are in my salt shaker. Interesting academic question, but seeing so many people climb on their soap box is wild.
i don't find it to be a baffling question. i think the unspoken part of this is "this is a really stupid system, someone ought to do something about it". i hope in the next 20 years that password managers are a thing of the past, but for good privacy-preserving reasons.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#187I have almost 1900 items in my password manager: this includes logins, software licenses, notes, etc. But this does not include items in vault Attic, where I move items which are no longer exist (dead sites, deleted accounts, old ids, etc).
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
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Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's an unfortunate correlation between how long and complex my password is and how I often I have to manually type it in. Microsoft are really good in this regard, and you almost never have to type in your password once you have the Authenticator set up. Google isn't too bad, once you're logged in, but you still sometimes have to type out your password in a situation where having access to your password manager i…
IIRC, Treasury.gov makes you enter your password by clicking buttons on a virtual, on-screen keyboard. Ugh.
They finally removed the virtual keyboard.
Do you remember when it was a random layout virtual keyboard? Good times.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#190I'm pushing 600 in my main password manager, but most of them aren't unique — I just use "farce72$" by default since it hasn't shown up in HIBP (yet -- fingers crossed) and hits three of the major character classes, so it's pretty high-entropy.
The password manager mostly serves the role of autofilling stuff in browsers.