On Thu, 2025-11-13 at 11:20 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The solution I always recommend (while we await the Coming Of the > Passkey Utopia) is to use a decent password manager and forget about > remembering and having to manually type passwords.
Unfortunately, you're still stuffed when it comes to storing passwords generated for you by something else that won't let you copy and paste, and password entry gadgets with the same stuff-up. When it comes to mail, I let browsers and mail programs remember passwords for me. Likewise with various other unimportant internet services, the browser can remember for me. Banking, no. That's only in my head. A friend of mine lost access to several hundred passwords thanks to a password manager screw-up. And I dread the day someone exploits everyone's data-stored-on-a-server password managers. I absolutely loathe it when some service has a screw-up that they won't admit to, and force password resets on you as part of their debugging process. The damn password was stored on my computers and other devices (plural), *I* haven't got it wrong. Now I have to go around resetting everything, everywhere. I never want a job in someone else's IT department, I could not tolerate the stupid things organisations want to do. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
