Re:Ask HN: What is your password management solution?
by linsomniac on Saturday July 15, 2017 @12:25PM
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I started using Enpass a few months ago and am mostly happy with it, but I'm not sure it'll work for me long term.
A few of the issues:
- It crashes periodically on Linux. Though it has never wedged the database.
- On ChromeOS, it is "supported" via the Android app, which does not integrate with the Browser plugin from what I can tell. I was really hoping for something that would work there.
- You can't have multiple password databases at all, from what I can tell. I'd really like something that could manage my personal passwords, work passwords that I share with 2 other people at work, and family passwords that are shared with my fiance'.
For the last decade I used a gpg encrypted file on my laptop, combined with passwords saved in the browser on my encrypted file-system. That worked fairly well, until I was in Mexico and my laptop decided to take a vacation too. I couldn't access ANY of my passwords until I got home and could get to my desktop or move my drive to another machine.
Enpass has some benefits:
- The syncing using Google Drive works well.
- Fingerprint unlocking of the vault on my phone works well.
- I've always had a pain point with apps on my phone that update and then need the password again (front door smart lock, car, bank), and I can't access them anymore until I get to my laptop and type in the 30 character random password.
- You can add fields to the records, the default "login" record has "security question" and answer, but for sites that have 3 security questions I can add them as custom fields. (My mothers maiden name? It's "mCxK7JszjJ5Mq29")
- It is available on Linux and Android and kinda on ChromeOS.
I do feel like a web-based one would work better with ChromeOS, but I'm still experimenting with whether ChromeOS can replace my laptop. I'm typing this on my laptop, so...
A few of the issues:
- It crashes periodically on Linux. Though it has never wedged the database.
- On ChromeOS, it is "supported" via the Android app, which does not integrate with the Browser plugin from what I can tell. I was really hoping for something that would work there.
- You can't have multiple password databases at all, from what I can tell. I'd really like something that could manage my personal passwords, work passwords that I share with 2 other people at work, and family passwords that are shared with my fiance'.
For the last decade I used a gpg encrypted file on my laptop, combined with passwords saved in the browser on my encrypted file-system. That worked fairly well, until I was in Mexico and my laptop decided to take a vacation too. I couldn't access ANY of my passwords until I got home and could get to my desktop or move my drive to another machine.
Enpass has some benefits:
- The syncing using Google Drive works well.
- Fingerprint unlocking of the vault on my phone works well.
- I've always had a pain point with apps on my phone that update and then need the password again (front door smart lock, car, bank), and I can't access them anymore until I get to my laptop and type in the 30 character random password.
- You can add fields to the records, the default "login" record has "security question" and answer, but for sites that have 3 security questions I can add them as custom fields. (My mothers maiden name? It's "mCxK7JszjJ5Mq29")
- It is available on Linux and Android and kinda on ChromeOS.
I do feel like a web-based one would work better with ChromeOS, but I'm still experimenting with whether ChromeOS can replace my laptop. I'm typing this on my laptop, so...