Re: [orca-list] Password managers?

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

Come to think of it Ithink I  got an email from lastpass recently mentioning integration with some 3rd party 
auth service, probably was logmein. 
This was just going to be an option for users who had a reason to use it, not a manditory change or migration 
to anything new or different.
Looking at logmein homepage Linux is not part of their mix, Windows, Mac and mobile platforms are what they 
claim to do, but again, this is just adding 
the ability to use last pass with whatever these cats have and do, not a requirement or even suggestion, so 
I'd say we have nothing to fear here.
Thanks for the heads up though, if things had been different unpleasant surprises would have been avoided, 
and I'll be paying more attention just in 
case things go to hell. 
Regards,
   

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     B.H.
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  B. Henry wrote:
Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 06:24:30PM -0500

> 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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>      B.H.
>    Registerd Linux User 521886
>
>
>   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.
> > >