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What? no, it exists for zillions platform, see https://pwsafe.org/relatedproj...

Also and you can compile it yourself, source are available:
https://github.com/pwsafe/pwsa...

What? no, it exists for zillions platform, see https://pwsafe.org/relatedproj...

Also and you can compile it yourself, source are available:
https://github.com/pwsafe/pwsa...

At one point I checked a lot of solution to keep my passwords, and PasswordSafe (from Bruce Schneier) is certainly the best one, I can also put my database on gdrive or whatever without fear.

Do you trust Bruce Schneier with regard to information security concerns?

• Password Safe
• More Info on Password Safe
• Debian backports Password Safe beta package

Some folks have put together ports for OS X as well. It's all open source; feel free to read the code for yourself and discuss it with others. Optimally, contribute to public discussion of this and other cryptographic tools so they can be more widely popularized and scrutinized. Hope this helps. -PCP

I use Password Safe as my password manager. It's mainly for Windows, but there's an Android app, and appear to be Max and Linux versions as well. There's a portable version so you could use it on a USB thumb drive. The password file can be local or synced with an online source.

Why does anyone care what is the "biggest" or "most important" open-source project ? That's like treating software in the same way as all that "Strictly Pop Idol Celebrity Chef Globes" TV garbage.

It's either *good* software, or it isn't, and that's the only criterion worth talking about.

Some of the best and most useful open-source software is also the smallest. Some of the most important and critical open-source software is also among the smallest and least 'recognised'. And some of the biggest open-source projects are also the biggest causes for concern.

Are we all hoping for prizes or something ?
Oh dear ... how childish.

Based on comments like yours, you're not not a normal human being. You are a lazy human being. Normal people might ask "gee, how might I solve this problem?" Instead, you're adopting the "oh no, it's too hard" attitude.

I've been working with normal people who manage to memorize multiple passwords for fifteen years. They aren't programmers, either, although some people are naturally better at this than others. For those who have a lot of passwords to manage, there are a wealth of options available, including things like KeepPass, Password Safe, and many others. There are "local only" options, online options, portable options, etc.

Again, your fundamental problem is that you're lazy, and you're encouraging others to be lazy and adopt terrible security practices. Stop dispensing security advice, and stop attempting to speak for what others can or can't handle.

I use Password Safe it stores my passwords behind a single master password. It stores URLs and user names and it can generate nice strong passwords. It's fugly but functional. There's one password needed to break everything, but that's what the original poster defined as his requirement.

Yes, downloading and installing a vim plugin (or using vim in the first place) is indeed reasonably difficult for most people.

That's why PasswordSafe [ http://pwsafe.org/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/ originally written by Bruce Schneier http://www.schneier.com/passsafe.html ] is what people need.

It doesn't solve every problem (e.g. key loggers and such things as might be on an untrusted system) but nothing does. It's a very simple, flexible, convenient piece of software that not only securely stores usernames and passwords, but URLs, email address, notes and more with the ability to copy/paste and/or drag/drop and/or autofill forms. Although it is mainly a Windows application, it's FOSS portable installs (e.g. U3) available. There is also a recent Linux port.

At the moment, I have 87 passwords in my primary passwordsafe file with related usernames, URLs, email, notes, password generation parameters, password expirations and more, all stored in a convenient hierarchy where work, banking, retail, hardware and other types of passwords are grouped in a tree that makes sense to me. For folks with simple needs, the hierarchy is optional and the entries can all be a flat list.

Sony's latest debacle has prompted me to wade through all my "important" entries (banks and such) and generate unique, random, secure passwords with expiration dates recommended by my PWsafe settings. Sadly, many of the accounts I created before I started using PWsafe used the same username and password combination for similar sites (e.g. retailers with CC info); I have now made my data much more secure with passwords I could never remember, except that PWsafe now remembers them all for me.