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Re: Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

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Agreed on use of keepassxc - fantastic utility. I don't, and wouldn't, use dropbox or any other non-free non-self-hosted system to manage the storage or synchronisation of my secure data, so it's unison(rsync) and/or ssh'd between desktop and laptop.

If only there's a way to do that with my iPhone :(

There are file sync apps that work with iOS devices that work with self-hosted file sync solutions.

Re: Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

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https://www.lastpass.com Free to use, auto password generation, has an iOS app with thumb print unlock (saves you from typing in a long master password). I personally really enjoy it.

>I don't want a subscription service, I want something that keeps an encrypted file that I can put in dropbox.

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If only there's a way to do that with my iPhone :(

There are file sync apps that work with iOS devices that work with self-hosted file sync solutions.

do you have a particular one you recommend?

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There are file sync apps that work with iOS devices that work with self-hosted file sync solutions.

do you have a particular one you recommend?

I don't use one, but to give an example, Google for "nextcloud iphone".

Re: Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

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https://www.lastpass.com Free to use, auto password generation, has an iOS app with thumb print unlock (saves you from typing in a long master password). I personally really enjoy it.

My company uses it and I really despise it.

Basically their web add-ons are extremely buggy. I was using Firefox and after many issues tried Chrome version, that one looks nicer but is similar POS and similarly had its own set of issues. Perhaps I would be happier if there was just a standalone app that I would only fire up when I need it.

Re: Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

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`pass` is a nice command line tool that stores gpg2 encrypted password files. It's simple, super handy and doesn't require you to trust any third party with what you're storing. website: https://www.passwordstore.org/ man page: https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/about/

+1 for `pass`. I wrote a handy Bash script [1] that lets me easily search my passwords without having an exact match (e.g., `fpass fin cap one` quickly finds my password info for "Financial/CapitalOne.gpg"). It makes pulling up passwords so much easier as I only need to remember fragments of how I stored it instead of trying to remember exact folders and names using auto-complete to find the password. I also use iTer…

Oh my ZSH (http://ohmyz.sh/), if you use zsh of course, has autocomplete, so folders and GPG files are only a few tabs away.

Re: Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

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write it down and put piece of paper in pocket

Congratulations for having the patience to write out long strings of characters on paper and type them out repeatedly, but that doesn't sound very safe.

It's about as safe as sms 2fa. Once you've used the password 10 or 20 times it becomes memorized.
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