Password manager

[genesiswave at gmail.com (James Costello)]

Thanks for clarifying

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Howard Siegel <hsiegel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let me make one point clear...
>
> KeePass does not summarily fill in usernames/passwords just because a
> window title that it might recognize pops up in an application.  You must
> type type in the command sequence (by default alt-ctrl-A) to wake it up at
> which point it looks at the active window's title and if there is a match it
> will type in whatever you have programmed it to type (which can be anything
> including, or not, a username and password).  It is still you that makes the
> decision to tell KeePass to do it's thing, so if you don't recognize the web
> site or applciation that is requesting the info, don't tell KeePass to
> anything.
>
> The Firefox extension puts the host name in the window title bar to make it
> easier to code the auto-type-window information in to KeePass, beacuse a lot
> of web sites have generic titles on their login pages, like "Login".  By
> using the host name, it makes it easier for KeePass to find the specific
> information for that page in it's database once you tell it to do the
> lookup.  Again, if you don't recognize the page/host, don't tell KeePass to
> do anything.
>
> - h
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 07:54, Howard Siegel <hsiegel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, no, for two reasons.....
> >
> > 1) I wouldn't even type the "automatic password" trigger key sequence for
> > your site.
> >
> > 2) The filter I use is " * # mail.google.com # *", which would not match
> > the window title on your site.  To match your site the filter would have to
> > be " * # mail.google.com.ihackedu.net # *".
> >
> > - h
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:40, <genesiswave at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > So what happens if I set up mail.google.com.ihackedu.net
> > > Will this pass your creds to me automatically?
> > > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Howard Siegel <hsiegel at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:31:51
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