Re: [orca-list] Password managers?

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Well, I think this is probably unlikely to effect anything but the universal installer that searches for 
supported browsers and gets the extension for 
them via a set of scripts. 
The actual extensions are platform agnostic from the extension's point of view I think, (not sure, just a 
slightly edumucated guess), i.e. any OS 
specific stuff would be handled by the browser itself...
I'm just hoping  and guessing, but my kowledge does not throw up red flags so I think the hopes are not 
unreasonable.
Judging from the one time I tried the universal installer on Arch-Linux it's probably easier and faster to 
just install and configure extension for each 
browser anyway. 
I could be wrong, there is a ~/.lastpass directory created by the firefox, (original), flavour of LP, but I 
kind of think that firefox itself might set 
the path for where to store this data.
Over the years only once have I installed an extension that was only available for firefox on Windows, think 
once or twice I saw another one I 
considered but did not bother with for this reason.


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  kendell clark wrote:
Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 06:09:13PM -0500
I"m not familiar with the site you mention beyond hearing the name once or twice/will take a quick look and 
see if I see anything scarey orecouraging.

> hi
> I can't comment on password managers per say, but I will point out that
> a week or so ago lastpass was bought out by the people over at logmein,
> which means their linux versions are likely to either be closed off, or
> abandoned altogether, since logmein is windows and possibly mac
> exclusive. I have zero proof this will happen, but in my experience this
> is usually what happens, so those that use it might want to go looking
> for another provider if there are any accessible ones on linux. I've
> never gotten keepass anything working accessibly  on linux but to be
> honest I haven't tried that hard. I usually just store passwords in
> firefox, which yes I know isn't really all that secure. But there at
> least there's little chance of firefox becoming entire closed source and
> thus me losing my passwords.
> Thanks
> Kendell clark
>
>
> On 10/15/2015 05:11 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> > I think that keepass2 is preffered over keepass, but have never used either one. 
> > I think it still may be accessible enough to be usable, but lastpass is really good, smart at dealing 
> > with less common password configurations, has easy 
> > to use multi-profile formfilling so that you can have a profile that includes bank card  data if you 
> > want, another that does not, another that may use 
> > false or semi false data for throwaway registrations on websites you don't really want to have a serious 
> > long term relationship with, etc. 
> > Usually when you change a password you are offered the option to update the password either on a specific 
> > page or everything offered by a website and or 
> > domain, or to create a new entry with the new PW while keeping the old creds as an option. 
> > There support ppl respond to queries on twitter, not sure about other ways of contacting them, and nice 
> > security flexability is available. You can get 
> > temporary passwords to use on mobile devices or public computers, set the extension to do anything from 
> > logging off after a few minutes of inactivity to 
> > staying logged in on all browsers on a given device for up to two weeks. I use different security 
> > settings on different devices to balance convenience 
> > against security. 
> > It has all the other little extras that you'd expect as well like secure PW generation, and can be set to 
> > prompt you to log in to save data when 
> > registering on a new site or not. 
> > I think you do need a premium account  to use lastpass with phone OS's,  like IOS and Android, but I've 
> > only used the free version, and had very good 
> > experiences with both Linux and Windows. 
> > You can install extensions browser by browser, or install a binary that installs last pass on all your 
> > browsers. I've used the multi browser installer 
> > on both Windows and Linux, but usually ust install on a browser by browser basis either from the google 
> > web store or the firefox extensions manager.
> >