Password Safes

Fri Jun 8 21:01:43 UTC 2012

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