After having my Twitter account compromised, I promised to tell you all about some password management programs. I have tried out a few, and found one that stands above the rest – KeePassX.
What is a password management program? Simply put, it’s a program that allows you to store all of your website and application passwords, and easily login to your favorite services. It allows you to use unique, long, hard to guess passwords for everything, without using the same password everywhere, and without requiring you to memorize those passwords. Remember more than a couple of passwords is hard to do, and it’s the number 1 reason that people use simple passwords, and re-use the same password everywhere. Password managers solve this problem.
I’ve chosen KeePassX for a few reasons. I use Ubuntu on all of my computers (actually, more specifically, I use Kubuntu, which is Ubuntu with KDE instead of GNOME). The Linux version of KeePassX uses the Qt application framework, so it integrates nicely into my system, and it’s available in the Ubuntu repositories, making it very easy to install.
There are also Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone, Android, and Blackberry versions of KeePass available, and your password database can be used by all of these versions, making it very easy to have access to your passwords no matter what. Personally, I sync my password database to my Android phone, which allows me to take my passwords with me wherever I go.
The most important feature of KeePassX for me, however, is the ability for it to automatically type my username and password when I want to log in, all I have to do is enter a keyboard shortcut (which is user-definable).
So, instead of relying on your memory, writing down your passwords, or, even worse, using the same simple password for everything, I suggest checking out KeePassX
Thanks, I will take a look at it