A bit under 200, but only around 20 that I use with any regularity.
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?
#52Around 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…
Agreed, enough horror stories have kept me away from using Google as OAuth. The only value I see in it is as part of SSO for employee accounts. Employee leaves and revoke access to everything.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#53Interesting question! I just checked and, wow, I have 922 accounts in 1password. (From 10+ years of use.) It’s funny you bring this up because I’ve thought about “cleaning up” 1password before. But all the extra accounts are not really in my way. I never use oauth (like to create a new account / password for everything). All of my work-related accounts are in there from several employers. Lots of passwords for (proba…
> I never use oauth (like to create a new account / password for everything).
Me too. I have 672. Lots are for accounts I set up for nieces/nephews, etc., so those don’t really count. I bet 100 are stale as well I’ll clean them up one day. Lol.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#54Bitwarden lists 791. A ton of them are for internal services/local dev accounts/what have you, but that's still a pretty long list.
I don't use most of them. A third of them are for my spam email address. I'm starting to notice Bitwarden taking its sweet time decrypting them all, though.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#55Shit, just looking at the replies, there's a solid case for password managers. No normal human is going to memorize 100+ unique passwords meeting various complexity requirements. It almost makes shaming people for re-using passwords look like you're out of touch. Of course they're following bad practices, how could they not be?!
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#56963 in Bitwarden
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#57241 in 1password
340 in Google Password Manager
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#58If I need to login to your site less than once or twice a year, "Forgot my password" is my password manager. Personally, I feel that the utility of me working to keep and maintain that information in a database for high availability is essentially zero.
As a result, I store very few accounts overall and checking out as "guest" hasn't been a problem of any sort. There's like 10 critical things that I feel the need to store the password on and they all use a hardware key for 2fa anyways.
For the two accounts that I absolutely can't lose access to, I just used the "Correct Horse Battery Staple" method and came up with two very long and secure passwords that I have no trouble remembering.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#59Shit, just looking at the replies, there's a solid case for password managers. No normal human is going to memorize 100+ unique passwords meeting various complexity requirements. It almost makes shaming people for re-using passwords look like you're out of touch. Of course they're following bad practices, how could they not be?!
I take a pragmatic approach: the dozen logins in my life that actually matter get strong unique passwords, and everything I don't give a shit about gets the same password.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#60Around 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…
Not even banned, one of the games I play just put out an announcement that Twitter login support might be dropped soon because of Twitter's API changes, so you better associate your account with email soon.