Jul
19
After seeing a post on Password Managers for OS X, I decided to share my technique. I’m not sure where I found this idea, but it isn’t something I could have thought of on my own.
The Basics: I use a plain-text file in an ecrypted disk image. There is an alias to this file from my desktop, and when I open the alias, it authenticates and then mounts the disk image. It’s quick, simple, and relatively painless. Finding passwords is as simple as hitting Command+F and typing.
- Create a folder, called Encrypted or something, and in this folder, put a text file with the passwords you want to store. I just used the plaintext export of my old password program. For each line, just put the website username and password, seperated by spaces or tabs or whatever. basically, you want all the information you’d need to know where each password goes. For instance, my file contains a line like:
flickr foo 123xyz
This tells me that at Flickr, my username is foo and my password is 123xyz.
Use the procedure from here (miror of content) to make a disk image out of the Encrypted folder.
With the new disk image mounted, Control+Click your password file and select Create Alias. Drag this alias to the desktop and eject the disk.
When you double click the alias, it brings up the authentication box for the disk image. type in your password, the disk is mounted and your passwords open.
With this method, you get quick searching, thanks to whatever text editor you choose to use, and it’s all plain text, so its universally portable. But you’re hosed if you forget the password to the disk image.
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