My team used it as a secrets vault to share and safeguard various keys and passwords used for infrastructure components. I first stumbled upon it back when I was an IT Operations Manager for a medium sized organization. You can find a lot of information on the website, depending on what you are looking for.KeePass is an awesome, free, and open source password manager. It's much easier to restore and a lot more secure. You can then use Yubico's authentication app + security key which works with any service requiring an authetication app (including CDC - this is what I use).
Not a solution to your exact problem, but since you're already in this pickle, I recommend getting a couple security keys (Yubikeys directly from ). It's better than using phone multifactor authentication, because it's possible for hackers to either trick you into giving them 2FA codes (There's a video on the front page of right now explaining how that can happen), or to manipulate your phone carrier. You know how sites ask you to use 2FA by texting you a code and having you put it in? It lets you do that by pressing the gold button on the front. * When in rare machines, or doing things that are probably not ideal (like trying to load and read account information stored in the password manager) they'd have to pull up.įirst Yubikey lasted almost 10 years, here’s hoping for another 10! * Whenever they are using a known machine (their laptop, phone, etc.) an biometric+device security is used, that's your 2FA. So instead you get your parents a set of yubi-keys for their access to 1-pass. Why passkeys from Apple, Google, Microsoft may soon replace your passwordsĪnd this is what passkeys fix. Sorry if this has been asked a lot already - I've tried searching and this subreddit, but I haven't found a fix for it. You need to remember one good password to open the database and then you can generate a different password for every service you use.
I us KPass & get the database from Synology Drive.Ī woman who got locked out of her Apple account minutes after her iPhone was stolen and had $10,000 taken from her bank account says Apple was 'not helpful at all'Ĭonsider a password manager. Is it safe to use the Windows password manager? Con is that you need to handle syncing across devices yourself. Recommendation of Windows software KeePass and KeePass XC, another password manager, but it works fully offline.A good, free and tested solution is KeePass. Use a non cloud based password manager. Īdditionally regarding the password security: KeePass is really straightforward to use & will generate secure passwords for you so you only ever need to remember one password. Definitely time to think about setting up a password manager & locking stuff down.
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