Tim: >> Have you ever let the browser save a password for anything? François Patte: > Maybe against my will! How can I get rid of it?
It's easy enough to do. You might be configuring your router, and it offered to save the logon and you hit the enter button without noticing the question. I haven't used chromium for ages, but in most browsers there's a section of the configuration that handles cookies, passwords, and privacy related things. You could check for saved passwords, and erase any. There's other things like having your browser log in to some service that synchronises your bookmarks and history. Various browsers off something like that (that also gives them yet another database they could spy on you with). If you've allowed that kind of thing, that'll be another reason it might want to set up a keyring. Firefox has a password section, where it'll save individual passwords, and allows a master password to be set for the whole browser (giving you one unlock password to remember, and it remembers all your passwords for everything else - the kind of thing Patrick advised against, saying use a dedicated program instead of the browser). If you have one computer and one browser, letting the browser save things for you is convenient (*if* you trust it). But if you have a plethora of browsers and computers, you'd have set each one individually, and manage any changes. That's when a dedicated password manager really shows up its worth. Regarding trusting browsers... they're a very complex program, they have lots of bugs, and there's always exploits being discovered. I'll trust it to remember logons to my WiFi router, internal LAN things, and unimportant things on the internet, but never save a banking password anywhere (and never use the same password for it and something else). Quite apart from the obvious risk of getting robbed, various banks will drop all the liability on you if you saved your password. -- 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
