[Novalug] forgotten passwords

John Franklin franklin at elfie.org
Tue Mar 16 01:59:00 EDT 2010


On Mar 15, 2010, at 10:30 PM, greg pryzby wrote:

> not sure what is going on, but I forgot a few passwords over the  
> weekend....
>
> someone else had admin and could reset one of them,
>
> the other is an luks encrypted partition. i think that data is lost  
> (ok as it is an extra computer w/ just copies).
>
> that said, if anyone has ideas on how to crack LUKS, let me know and  
> we can try ;)
>
> any ideas for a way to save passwords? I never write them down so I  
> am interested in a new system

I've got an app on my Mac called 1password that creates secure  
passwords that look like you faceplanted on the keyboard, and saves  
them in an encrypted dictionary.  Kinda like Keychain, but better.

jf



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