Has anyone tried it? It claims to keep control over all your passwords securely, requiring only a single password to unlock.
I use kwallet
Never tried LastPass
I use RoboForm, which I started using when Windows was more important to me.
While it is now secondary to multiple Suse machines, I find it works well via the browser add-on.
The combination of RoboForm “Everywhere” and Firefox Sync (for bookmarks) makes moving between machines very painless.
Feature Sets Look very similar after a quick look.
OpenSuse 11.4 64bit KDE. Based on your response I decided to try kwallet. When I clicked the appropriate choice in the Application Launcher Menu nothing happened. kwalletmanager is installed so I invoked the command from a console. Nothing happened and my prompt returned immediately. There is no man page for kwalletmanager. Invoking “kwalletmanager --help-kde” did not offer any options that seemed to apply. Running as root produced the following…
# kwalletmanager
unnamed app(3895): KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server: "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken."
unnamed app(3894): KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
Whatever is blocking you from using Kwallet at the moment is to be found out, But you sghould of course never run such a user application as root! Kwallet is to manage the passwords of an end-user. Never of root.
Isn’t Kwalletmanager allready active for your user? Did you look into the applets that are hidden from direct vision (for me it is an uppointing triangle at the right of the Klipper icon and the mixer icon and a few others).?
Thank you very much. It was already running.
I think I uninstalled kwallet to keep me from uninstalling opensuse. I used to use the free version of Roboform when I was on Windows. I used it and liked it so much, I felt guilty and paid for a “lifetime” subscription. Two weeks later, I switched to linux and they had no linux client.
I can’t remember how long ago, but I switched to LastPass. It is the most valuable, convenient, useful add-on I have. I don’t know half of my passwords. I use LastPass to generate secure passwords for me, remember them, and fill them in when I return to the page. Just as much as password management, I enjoy the form filling tool. My wife and I have separate “identities” and fill forms with a single click for either of us. You can even skip the one click if you have only one ID stored.
The price is right: free. Unless you want the portable (USB) version or the phone version. Get it.
Been using LastPass on multiple PCs to manage PWs etc for 75 sites +/- for several years now. It’s great to be able to use the same “password vault” on multiple PCs at multiple locations.
Caveat: I’ve had no issues for all that time, so I’ve no idea how their support is if an issue does come up.
Overall 10/10
I too have used Lastpass for a couple of years now. They take security very serious there, and they have had only one really bad time since I’ve been using it. No passwords were breached & all users were asked to a create new vault password just to be safe.
Also it makes for a great backup if you also add the Xmarks addon. If anything should happen to your /home folder you can retrieve both your bookmarks & passwords no problem.
I’ve been using Lastpass for several years now across multiple Linux installs and it works great. I also use Abine’s Firefox addons, DoNotTrack+ and the one that randomizes Google searches. Been very happy with both.
I hate and despise using such programs. I don’t trust them personally. I don’t like the master password thing in Firefox, or keyring, or kwallet. I think all of it is a bad idea. I don’t like any of that stored on the computer.
Jon,
Thanks you just reminded me of something I should have said in my original post. I use Lastpass for what I consider “expendable passwords”
these are ones that go to fora that have no info on me other then my IP address, or sites where there’s no monetary interest. I use Lastpass mostly as a backup for passwords on those sites.
Now for such things as the Bank, or any site where money is involved I keep those in my head
So, ionmich my recommendation would be to keep your bank & credit card passwords in your head anything else can safely be stored in Lastpass for backup.
Good point… me too
Started using it today, already have one weird issue though.
It was set to ask my master password before filling in a form, when i enter it and press accept (or something like that) it doubles the characters and then give the error wrong pw
I use LastPass Premium. I have a System76 Lemur Ultra Thin (lemu4) notebook PC and I am running OpenSuSE 64 bit Tumbleweed. I added the LastPass add-on in Mozilla Firefox. I have two Yubico Yubi Keys for strong two-factor authentication. I have two years of service with LastPass Premium.
I can’t get the LastPass Pocket to connect to the Internet. I created a ticket with LastPass and they are investigating this issue. They should be able to resolve it for me. I keep getting the Error: frameopen(2) when I try to use LastPass Pocket to connect to the Internet to download my vault locally.
Can anyone help me to solve this problem?
In OpenSuSE 12.2 64 bit with Tumbleweed, I did this:
su -
type in my root password
ln -s /usr/share/kde4/apps/kssl/ca-bundle.crt /etc/pki/tls/certs
It worked!
This is resolved.
Thank you!
Hmm, no, I don’t do that.
To keep them in my head would require that I use simple, easy to remember passwords. I prefer to use harder password, and keep a copy in an encrypted file. That way, I only have to remember the one password (for the encrypted file).
I allow kdewallet to track some passwords (when using konqueror), and I allow the firefox password manager to keep some (I have firefox keep them encrypted).
Just curious do you mean like Truecrypt or KGpg?
It’s a gpg encrypted file.