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Use Password Safe to save effort and time in Windows 7

Obligatory mention; Keepass. It's another great password manager worth looking at with a client/database setup so you can open your database of passwords on nearly any OS you might sit down infront of.

Keepass (Windows)
Keepass Portable (Windows portableapp format for USB or run-from-directory use)
KeepassX (osX, Linux based OS, BSD based OS, Blackberry, PalmOS, Maemo, probably Iphone by now)

(For a fully portable database, stick with version 1 not 2)

Password Safe is a great choice also though my one complaint with it was a less portable database. I had been using it for a while when an updated desktop version incorporated a newer database format making it unreadable on my mobile devices. If you don't need to open your passwords on multiple devices though; Password Safe will probably cover your needs.

KeypassX is also available for WIndows making it the most cross-platform capable option (though not the most feature rich).

KeepassX started as a version of Keepass for Unix like OS (I think it came second anyhow) so I've gotten used to recognizing the difference. I wonder what the difference between Keepass Win and KeepassX Win is.

In terms of OS supported, you sure can't go wrong starting from the Keepass website:

Keepass Download page
- Windows, Windows portableapp, Windows U3
- Windows Phone, PocketPC, Iphone, Blackberry, PalmOS, J2ME java environments
- Linux based OS and Apple OSX (KeepassX link at bottom)

KeepassX download page
- Linux based distribution repositories
- Linux based distributions by 1click install
- osX
- Windows

And if your not covered under either of those two download pages or your distro repositories. You can download the source code for either and build it yourself. Freaking fantastic.

The "use pwsafe as a keyboard shortcut driven X tool" link is pointing at the "5 features" article not the article discussing use of pwsafe with X bindings.

I've been using Password Safe for several years. Does what it says it will and does it well! Available in a portable version as well as a U3 version.

Pwsafe has been ported for 'droid devices, so you can travel with your passwords.

I'll stick with my handwritten list thank you.

If the passwords are in the computer, someone will get them.
A Rolodex can't be hacked.

There's nothing to hack; just pick it up and read it. Are you going to lock it in a safe at home, and carry it around in a locked briefcase like Elwood Blues' harmonica?

I can not remember when I started using Password Safe. It has been a while - and I have yet to be disillusioned with it. My access password is a pain - and that is only for the passwords I store for bank, cards. Paypal, etc. Another database gets me to everyday sites that pose no financial risk - and that is a trivial access password.
I use the same database with Password Gorilla on Ubuntu. At this point I have not figured out how to get PG to open a network file - so I routinely copy the everyday sites to the Ubuntu store and I am good.

I have considered the disk on key approach - too inert to learn how to do it. Instead I keep the extra secure database on a USB drive that is only online when I need to use it.

There are probably other equally effective solutions out there - this is the one that I have learned to use - and I am pleased. Understand that this writer has also been with the same automobile insurance company for 49 years, so maybe I am not the most credible source. If it works and I am pleased I see no reason to change.

Is the database simple to back up? Wouldn't want to have the only copy on a USB key and lose the key.

I have found passpack to be good and it has an adobe air desktop client.

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