Looking for a free, cross-platform password manager
It’s easy to use the built-in Firefox password manager (remember to set a master password!) but that only works on one machine. When I switch between Windows XP and Fedora (Linux) or our Mac machine, those passwords don’t move with me, so I end up with unsynchronised sets of passwords … and then I change a password from one machine and then can’t login from the others until I remember to update the local records on the others.
So what’s the solution? A cross-platform password manager (i.e. it runs on all the various operating systems I use). The database has to be encrypted; I don’t care if it’s stored on a USB flash drive or “in the cloud” (on a remote server). And of course it should be free, because I’m a cheapskate!
If anyone uses such a tool, please leave a comment with your recommendations … or warnings!
Meanwhile, a Google search returns quite a few options, so I’ll try some and update this post with my findings.
Steps/findings:
- Installed the Password Exporter plugin for Firefox to (oddly enough) export my FF passwords to XML and CSV, ready for (hopefully) importing into the different password manager tools
- (more to come)
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