Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:12:21PM +0200, Martin Schrvder wrote: > On 2006-05-05 13:30:50 -0600, Bob Beck wrote: > > DON'T WRITE YOUR PASSWORD DOWN ANYWHERE! > > Which is wrong. Schneier advices to writing them down and keeping > them safe. You already can do that with your wallet, right? Sch

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-08 Thread Jonathan Glaschke
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:12:21PM +0200, Martin Schrvder wrote: > On 2006-05-05 13:30:50 -0600, Bob Beck wrote: > > > It would be really great if some on can give advice on this topic :-) > > > > This would fall under the category of > > > > DON'T WRITE YOUR PASSWORD DOWN ANYWHERE! > > Whi

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-08 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2006-05-05 13:30:50 -0600, Bob Beck wrote: > > It would be really great if some on can give advice on this topic :-) > > This would fall under the category of > > DON'T WRITE YOUR PASSWORD DOWN ANYWHERE! Which is wrong. Schneier advices to writing them down and keeping them safe.

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-08 Thread Siju George
On 5/7/06, Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Siju George wrote on Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:31:39AM +0530: > On 5/6/06, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> somebody asked: >>> How do you people store passwords in OpenBSD if you have so many of >>> them and would need to copy one of them

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-08 Thread Siju George
On 5/6/06, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/6/06, Michael Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Siju George wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What can I use in OpenBSD instead of. > > > > http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net > > Look here: http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/Gorilla/ > > It can be compiled

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-07 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Siju George wrote on Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:31:39AM +0530: > On 5/6/06, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> somebody asked: >>> How do you people store passwords in OpenBSD if you have so many of >>> them and would need to copy one of them to a password prompt while >>> others are aroud you wa

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-06 Thread Marcus Popp
On 2006-05-06T14:32, Siju George wrote: > Hi Tanvir, > > Thankyou so much for the info and offer :-) > > On 5/6/06, Tanvir Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 5/5/06, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It would be really great if some on can give advice on this topic :-) > > > >You ca

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-06 Thread Siju George
Hi Tanvir, Thankyou so much for the info and offer :-) On 5/6/06, Tanvir Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/5/06, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be really great if some on can give advice on this topic :-) You can keep your passwords in plain-text grepable file format and

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-06 Thread Siju George
On 5/6/06, Michael Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > What can I use in OpenBSD instead of. > > http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net Look here: http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/Gorilla/ It can be compiled to run under OpenBSD as well. Thanks a million Michael :-) This

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-05 Thread Siju George
On 5/6/06, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you people store passwords in OpenBSD if you have so many of > them and would need to copy one of them to a password prompt while > others are aroud you watching your screen? (ahem) I simply wouldn't do this. it's stupid. > > I know

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-05 Thread Siju George
On 5/6/06, dave feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 15:30, Bob Beck wrote: > > How do you people store passwords in OpenBSD if you have so many of > > them and would need to copy one of them to a password prompt while > > others are aroud you watching your screen? If you are

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-05 Thread Tanvir Ahmed
On 5/5/06, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It would be really great if some on can give advice on this topic :-) You can keep your passwords in plain-text grepable file format and encrypt the file using GnuPG. I have written a small shell script which takes a server name as a command-lin

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-05 Thread Michael Frost
Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > What can I use in OpenBSD instead of. > > http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net Look here: http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/Gorilla/ It can be compiled to run under OpenBSD as well.

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-05 Thread dave feustel
On Friday 05 May 2006 15:30, Bob Beck wrote: > > How do you people store passwords in OpenBSD if you have so many of > > them and would need to copy one of them to a password prompt while > > others are aroud you watching your screen? If you are using KDE windows, there is a program called kwallet

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-05 Thread Bob Beck
> How do you people store passwords in OpenBSD if you have so many of > them and would need to copy one of them to a password prompt while > others are aroud you watching your screen? (ahem) I simply wouldn't do this. it's stupid. > > I know I ca encrypt password files but when I decryp

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-05 Thread Siju George
On 5/5/06, Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 16:57, Siju George wrote: > What can I use in OpenBSD instead of. > > http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net pwsafe from ports. Thanks a million Lars :-) And Thankyou Joerg, Jonathan and tony for you responses :-) Kind Reg

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-05 Thread Jonathan Glaschke
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 02:27:45PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, Hallo. > > What can I use in OpenBSD instead of. > > http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net > > How do you people store passwords in OpenBSD if you have so many of > them and would need to copy one of them to a password prompt while >

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-05 Thread Joerg Zinke
On Fri, 5 May 2006 14:27:45 +0530 "Siju George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > What can I use in OpenBSD instead of. > > http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net > hint: $ cd /usr/ports/; make search key=password will give you at least these: security/kedpm security/pwsafe x11/gnome/keyring

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-05 Thread tony sarendal
The most popular way of managing passwords: http://iatservices.missouri.edu/images/techknowledge/archive/secconn-0403.jpg Guaranteed to not require any BLOB.

Re: OpenBSD alternative for Bruce Schneier's "password safe"

2006-05-05 Thread Lars Hansson
On Friday 05 May 2006 16:57, Siju George wrote: > What can I use in OpenBSD instead of. > > http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net pwsafe from ports. --- Lars Hansson