Password Management Applications?

Question

I have some passwords that are long, complicated and hard to remember.

I would like to use a password-manager application to save all of my passwords instead of saving them using a text editor.

What is the best password manager?

Answer 1

KeePassX

KeePassX is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the algorithms AES or Twofish.

Answer 2

Seahorse is an application that is installed in Ubuntu by default and manages passwords for various applications.

Answer 3

I suggest you the free, cross-platform KeePassX. I'm using it in my Android phone too(combined with Dropbox). You can install from the software center

KeePassX

KeePassX is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the algorithms AES or Twofish.

You can find the features here, and more screenshots here.

Answer 4

I really like LastPass It's not open source, but is very well supported across platforms, browsers and devices. They recently acquired XMarks (great cross platform/cross browser bookmark sync tool). LastPass is incredibly secure, offers 2nd pass authentication and is very reliable.

Answer 5

KeePassX is another option:

KeePassX is an application for people with extremly high demands on secure personal data management. It has a light interface, is cross platform and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

KeePassX saves many different information e.g. user names, passwords, urls, attachments and comments in one single database. For a better management user-defined titles and icons can be specified for each single entry. Furthermore the entries are sorted in groups, which are customizable as well. The integrated search function allows to search in a single group or the complete database. KeePassX offers a little utility for secure password generation. The password generator is very customizable, fast and easy to use. Especially someone who generates passwords frequently will appreciate this feature.

The program is available in the Software Center but I can't figure out how to make a nice install button which works :)

KeepassX is also available for Windows and MacOS.

Answer 6

You can use Figaro's Password Manager 2

Figaro's Password Manager 2 (FPM2) is a program that allows you to securely store the passwords. Passwords are encrypted with the AES-256 algorithm.

If the password is for a web site, FPM2 can keep track of the URLs of your login screens and can automatically launch your browser. In this capacity, FPM2 acts as a kind of bookmark manager. You can teach FPM2 to launch other applications, and optionally pass hostnames, usernames or passwords to the command line.

FPM2 also has a password generator that can choose passwords for you. It allows you to determine how long the password should be, and what types of characters (lower case, upper case, numbers and symbols) should be used. You can even have it avoid ambiguous characters such as a capital O or the number zero.

^{Source: http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2012/02/ui-based-password-manager-figaros.html}

Answer 7

While KeePassX is very easy to install and manage, I personally prefer KeePass2. While a bit harder to customize and having a tendency to act up on Unity, it offers far better browser integration IMHO.

With KeePass, you'll never ever have to enter a password again on any website. You will not even have to break your fingers with some strange keyboard shortcut. KeePass recognizes the website you're on and submits your login data fully automatical, leaving you only with one mouse click on 'login' to do. It's very handy and convienient.

A tutorial about how-to install and configure it to work with Chrome/Chromium can be found here.

Answer 8

I use password cards. There is an open source desktop version being developed called Randy. Until then you can use passwordcard.org

Answer 9

Vapourware alert: I use a GNOME Do plugin that pulls from/pushes to the GNOME keyring. It's not yet published because it's a little bit too happy to let you shoot yourself in the foot. This answer will be updated once the plugin is better able to prevent the passwords leaking, and is released to Launchpad.

Answer 10

I like using Password Dragon, a password-manager written by the author of "The Geek Stuff" blog. It is cross-platform, Java-based, and works with Windows, Linux, and OS X.