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I haven't looked into password managers for a while. What do you do if you need to login on a random machine?
by mgfist 7y ago
I haven't looked into password managers for a while. What do you do if you need to login on a random machine?
- dharmab 7y agoWith 1Password, you can print out an emergency access key that can act as fallback for 2FA
- jchw 7y agoWith Bitwarden, I can just log into the webvault. Be aware that this (logging into sensitive accounts on untrusted devices) is a considerably poor idea and should be avoided at all costs! You should also memorize important passwords still. I know my personal Google password, for example.
- luhn 7y agoPull out my phone and lookup the password in the mobile app.
- mayneack 7y agoRead it from my phone. The big problem here is to remember to make anything I might want to access without signing into LP on the device in question something I can type relatively easily (not XH6M6cz5d8jZ@$tNOZ5wUHTO3ewxYW@L for example)
- driverdan 7y agoDon't. You shouldn't be putting your passwords into a random machine, it may be compromised. 20 years ago when I was in high school a friend of mine bought a hardware key logger. It went inline between the keyboard and computer. He would leave it on library computers to get the firewall password and to mess with other students. You never know when a machine is compromised.
- probably_wrong 7y ago> Don't. You shouldn't be putting your passwords into a random machine, it may be compromised. Sure, you shouldn't, but sometimes you have no other choice. The simplest case that comes to mind are the tourists who need to print boarding passes using the self-service computers in their hotel (or, even worse, at some printing shop down the street). I would definitely change my password afterwards, though.
- iamnotacrook 7y agoJust upload stuff you might need from an unsafe area from a private gitlab repo. Encrypt it if you like. Change the gitlab password when you're back (or just delete the account if you're paranoid).
- epanchin 7y ago2FA would have defeated your friend.
- dominicr 7y agoYou would get your password from the mobile app and type it in manually. For a suitably long and random password that takes effort but it should probably happen so rarely that it won't be a common annoyance.