Re: Password Safes

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 06/08/2012 02:01 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> On 2012-06-08, at 1:41 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
>
> > I run a website. If it can change it on mine, I'd like to understand
> > how it manages to do that.
> I log in to your website, change my password, and the software picks up that I've changed the password and updates the safe 
> accordingly.  The software doesn't initiate the password change, it just notices it and updates its database accordingly.  
> Sorry, I should have explained that more clearly.
>
> If you have a Mac or a Windows box, download the 1Password 30 day trail and take it for a run.  It really is a useful bit of software. 
>  No, it doesn't work on my *BSD, Solaris, or Plan 9 machines. But it does sync across all my Mac, Windows, and Android gear, and 
> the Android client lets me pull up passwords on my phone when I'm on one of the systems that doesn't have a native 1Password 
> client, or when I am on the road.

Ah, ok. Still Linkedin's contention that I should log in to every account
that I've created and change the password is still silly -- nobody's going
to do that.

That said, if there were a standardized way to get these password vault
software -- or whatever else wanted to manage them -- to do key refresh,
I'd be happy to implement it for my site. To my knowledge, such a protocol
does not exist.

Mike