deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Do I need a key logger in case I get locked out of my flat?
Recommend me a pasword manager....or not.
- Thread starter Salty seadog
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Salty seadog
Space Cadet...(3rd Class...)
Yep, and if I ever forget a password I can just ask one of you lot for it. What could possibly go wrong?
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Salty seadog
Space Cadet...(3rd Class...)
Log, brick, next doors cat, they'll all get you in if given enough momentum.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Or send a small kid up the drain pipe and into a small open upstairs toilet window
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Salty seadog
Space Cadet...(3rd Class...)
No problem
On a public computer you just log into Last Pass - put in your master password and you have access.
For optional added security you can set up duo access, which means you log in as above, but before it opens you need to have your mobile phone with you to verify you are you.
On a personal PC you could in theory save the password, but hopefully you have another password to get into the PC
In you use Chrome, you set up a gmail e-mail account (dont worry, you never need to use it), and then if you log into chrome with your gmail account it will remember all your favourites (including LastPass), and even you passwords, if you wanted.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
You still have an out house end of yard with a hook with last weeks newspaper attached I take it? Ah, happy memories!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
But if that public computer is compromised, doesn't that mean your master password could be grabbed by a key logger?
classic33
Leg End Member
Be careful at your local library.But if that public computer is compromised, doesn't that mean your master password could be grabbed by a key logger?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
That's the kind of thing I was wondering about!
Mind you, I don't use public computers...
classic33
Leg End Member
Council installed. They'll not say why.
See the note above re the optional Duo authentication.
I'd strongly recommend you switch it on
It means not only do they have to have your master password,
they also need your phone
and the pin number or thumb print to open it
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Salty seadog
Space Cadet...(3rd Class...)
I trust you can recover access if you lose your phone.
Sea of vapours
Guru
- Location
- Clapham, Yorkshire Dales
It's worth noting that Lastpass offers multiple forms of two factor authentication, not just the use of a phone. For example, you can use various physical keys (usb / smartcard), such as a Yubikey and you can have more than one Yubikey, meaning that a) you don't have to have a phone, b) you can lose a key and not have any notable problem. There are lots of methods listed on their help pages, including one time passwords.
