[153595] in North American Network Operators' Group
Password Safes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Fri Jun 8 17:02:28 2012
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4FD26378.9070900@mtcc.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 14:01:43 -0700
To: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2012-06-08, at 1:41 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
> I run a website. If it can change it on mine, I'd like to understand
> how it manages to do that.
I log in to your website, change my password, and the software picks up =
that I've changed the password and updates the safe accordingly. The =
software doesn't initiate the password change, it just notices it and =
updates its database accordingly. Sorry, I should have explained that =
more clearly.
If you have a Mac or a Windows box, download the 1Password 30 day trail =
and take it for a run. It really is a useful bit of software. No, it =
doesn't work on my *BSD, Solaris, or Plan 9 machines. But it does sync =
across all my Mac, Windows, and Android gear, and the Android client =
lets me pull up passwords on my phone when I'm on one of the systems =
that doesn't have a native 1Password client, or when I am on the road.
--lyndon=
