what's your favorite password manager?

[smithbyrne]

as the title says, just wondering what you guy use and what you'd recommend to small business clients?

 

[Diggs]

Ummm - We just did this. Search and ye shall find -

https://www.technibble.com/forums/threads/password-manager.81915/

 

[pcservices]

We recommend Keeper. We have the paid version but I think there is a free version you can use to try it out.

 

[callthatgirl]

Good old reliable...Notepad!

 

[Cambridge PC Support]

LastPass

 

[mraikes]

Good old reliable...Notepad!

Wow, how programmed have I become that my first mental image is not a bound paper pad, but rather Microsoft's program.

I was about to post that you'd lose all your passwords when the computer crashed!

 

[callthatgirl]

I keep them in notepad in my online sync program and backed up, so....I feel secured. They are in the cloud twice lol

 

[Diggs]

I keep them in notepad in my online sync program and backed up, so....I feel secured. They are in the cloud twice lol

Non-encrypted and in the cloud? That worries me. You may want to consider using Word and encryption.

 

[nlinecomputers]

LastPass or Dashlane.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Bitwarden all the things!

 

[Kitten Kong]

Passwords?

What is this mythical nonsense.

I don't have any passwords.

It just goes straight in..

You must have just set it up.

Say the vast majority of clients to their technicians.

 

[seedubya]

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Funny but, ultimately , bad advice.

@smithbyrne there are a plethora of options. We use LastPass premium and have done for 10-ish years. Have been testing BitWarden for a few months and it's also excellent.

Whatever you're recommending make sure it's good and that, somehow, you make money off the setup\training\subscription\hosting\whatever.

 

[MDD1963]

I keep them in notepad in my online sync program and backed up, so....I feel secured. They are in the cloud twice lol

Even though I use Lastpass, I also update a Notepad doc every month or so (easier for me than Keypass), and keep it encrypted (Glary) in 3-4 different cloud locations....and even then the passwords are incomplete, just enough notation to jog my memory on password scheme(s)

 

[seedubya]

A standard human brain is perfectly capable of retaining the half-dozen critical passwords most businesses need, without having to trust a fallible third-party or unproven software package. Even quite a small one can handle the two or three needed for most office jobs.

I'd accept that there's a good case for also writing the critical passwords down on a piece of paper which is placed in a sealed envelope in the company safe, just in case the human brains fail or go missing, but the opening of the envelope should be a last resort and require the changing of all the passwords it contains.

Why complicate things?

Half a dozen? Really? Most of my clients would have 30 plus and if those passwords are to meet difference, complexity and frequency-of-change requirements then they will soon mess up. Considering that about 10% of our helpdesk tickets relate to forgotten, expired or locked out accounts I don't think your clients are typical.

 

[mikeroq]

Switched from Lastpass to Bitwarden.

 

[seedubya]

frequent changing of passwords in favour of long-lasting high-entropy human-readable passwords instead

I don't disagree with you, I just think a password manager makes things much easier for people.

I'll just leave this here. (Source)

 

[Sky-Knight]

I don't care what memory cue you use, if you're an MSP, there's no way you're keeping all the "critical" or otherwise passwords in your head. I've got 40 some passwords just for myself, at least that many more PER CLIENT. The only way to stuff all that in your head, even using memorable pass phrases is to reuse them. Which means once a password is phished, now you've got to remember all the places you use it...

That's universally bad...

 

[cypress]

LastPass or Password 1

 

[phaZed]

I host my own docker on Unraid (Bitwarden). It's double-encrypted and on my local network only.