[mdlug] Email Passwords and Password Manager

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 06:36 -0400, Peter Bart wrote:
> Last week I started getting password errors on my handheld device
> retrieving my email. I'm assuming that either something on my end got
> corrupted or is it possible and/or likely that my password was
> intercepted while I was connected to one of the many unencrypted
> wireless networks I connect to? Of course I immediately changed my
> password, which brings me to my next question.
> 	Looking around for a password manager and a password generator. Right
> now I'm using pwgen and simply storing these in a text file. Obviously I
> need to do some work. 

Why?  That is what I do.  Install GNOME Seahorse, then gedit can GPG
encrypt/decrypt/sign data right from the Edit menu.  You get
convenience, security, and not being tied into some weirdo tool.   If
you need to you can always decrypt from the command line.

> s there a program that does both that someone can
> recommend? 

gedit + seahorse plugins

> Of course I would like something I can point and click on,

gedit

> I find that if it's cli I tend not to remember how to use it. Then I have
> to read the man page which then becomes a hassle and then falls out of
> use.
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