Who else has a hard time remembering all of their usernames and passwords?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Who else has a hard time remembering all of their usernames and passwords?

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:20:43 PM EDT

It has gotten bad trying to remember.

2 different e-mail addresses
arfcom password
2 different credit card usernames and passwords
one bank username and password
investment account username and password
cell phone username and password

I could go on.......once a month during bill paying time I am always clicking on the link forgot password?

Welcome to the information age.

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:21:48 PM EDT

[#1]

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:22:10 PM EDT

[#2]

This is exactly one of the reasons I use FireFox. I have it remember all except my banking passwords/usernames.

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:22:44 PM EDT

[#3]

That's why I have a top secret wallet

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:22:57 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
This is exactly one of the reasons I use FireFox. I have it remember all except my banking passwords/usernames.

I don't allow it to do that for security reasons. Call me paranoid.

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:23:14 PM EDT

[#5]

I keep them in a text file called PASSWORDS.TXT on a shared drive on my system visible to the Interweb.

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:24:06 PM EDT

[#6]

I have 4 or 5 different passwords that I use almost exclusively.

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:25:19 PM EDT

[#7]

I try to pick similer usernames for everything, and I have a standard set of passwords (as I make a new one every 6-12 months, I keep an encrypted list so if I login to an older account I can still find the password). All my passwords are 8 charectors of random numbers, as well as upper and lower case letters.
But overall, no I dont have touble remembering.

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:28:26 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
I keep them in a text file called PASSWORDS.TXT on a shared drive on my system visible to the Interweb.

Use Excel and encrypt it.

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:31:10 PM EDT

[#9]

yeah, this happened to me earlier. i finally figured it out though.

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:33:35 PM EDT

[#10]

I just write mine on a yellow legal tablet which I
keep beside my computer. No remembering necessary.

I do the same at the banking/deposit firm where I work. You wouldn't
believe the codes and passwords they expect us to remember.
We have to keep track of corporate access on-demand accounts,
secret bearer accounts, some government hush hush off the books
accounts, etc.
I just write 'em all down next to the account name and number and voila',
when I need them, they are at my side on my much thumbed through tablet.

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:35:32 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
This is exactly one of the reasons I use FireFox. I have it remember all except my banking passwords/usernames.

Same here.

let's see:

ARFCOM
e-mail
AR15ARMORY.com
Myspace
FieroLoki's website

Banking I don't use all that much.

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:38:53 PM EDT

[#12]

I have found using "4321" for my PIN and "PASSWORD" for my password makes it much easier to remember. And use the same ones for all my accounts.

YMMV.

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:40:26 PM EDT

[#13]

Not me. Been using Dead Corpse for so long I should almost register it as a legal alias.

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:41:57 PM EDT

[#14]

One of the reasons I have a "member date" that doesn't reflect

my true participacion on this board.

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:43:35 PM EDT

[#15]

I use this free password database.

www.cygnusproductions.com/freeware/pc.asp

Now I remember 1 username and password that gets me into the encrypted database containing lots of my usernames ands passwords.

Too easy!

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:47:59 PM EDT

[#16]

I use this:

easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/passwordsafe/pwsafe-2.16.exe

Free and nice

-Foxxz

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:50:54 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
It has gotten bad trying to remember.

2 different e-mail addresses
arfcom password
2 different credit card usernames and passwords
one bank username and password
investment account username and password
cell phone username and password

I could go on.......once a month during bill paying time I am always clicking on the link forgot password?

Welcome to the information age.

Oh Christ!

5 email addresses
7 forum passwords
2 bank accounts
savings account
2 brokerage accounts
401k account
roth ira account
2 Windows user accounts
cell phone account
switch access passwords (3 different levels)
GUI interface to switches
tracking logs for switch activities

Thats what comes to mind right off. The whole password thing pisses me off daily.

Posted: 4/12/2006 5:57:35 PM EDT

[#18]

www.romanlab.com/apw/

Posted: 4/12/2006 6:07:21 PM EDT

[#19]

Check out Roboform. It remembers all your passwords, forms, can generate passwords, can save safenotes, and it encrypts it all for you. Free version has limited number of signons and full version is inexpensive. I have used it for several years and very happy with it.

www.roboform.com

Posted: 4/12/2006 6:13:09 PM EDT

[#20]

i only have like 3 user names and I have been using this one since freshman year of High school (96)

Posted: 4/12/2006 6:13:20 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I keep them in a text file called PASSWORDS.TXT on a shared drive on my system visible to the Interweb.

Use Excel and encrypt it.

And then use PGP and wipe the orgianal.

Posted: 4/12/2006 6:14:19 PM EDT

[#22]

Posted: 4/12/2006 6:17:35 PM EDT

[#23]

I'm a 50-year-old divorced man. I can't begin to remember all the shit I have forgotten. If I knew how bad it really was, I would be depressed.

Wait a minute....I am depressed.

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