I have too god damn many passwords.

[graywarrior]

Jesus H...I could fill a phone book with all of them. No wonder it takes me forever to get anything done.

[BarenakedLady]

1. Tell me about it

And I constantly have to keep changing mine. :crazy:

[mcctatas]

2. I have to change mine at work every 6 weeks of I get locked out of

the system so now I just keep the same password and add the next higher number at the end

[graywarrior]

4. You know which is the worst? Government sites that want you to be specific

Password MUST have 4 of these..a,b,c,d,e,... 3 of these !@#$%^&*(), 1 to 5 numerals, 1 case sensitive capital letter...

Makes me want to shoot myself

[TZ]

5. Not just government sites..

Thats the way at my company..Oh and I have a password for everything and they all expire at different dates so I have so many different ones. I even have a different password to verify that I've read something..AAAGH!

[graywarrior]

7. And then if you try and keep a combination of the one your currently have

they give you shit about it.

[TZ]

8. Oh yeah.

Anything deemed to similar is automatically rejected by the computers..:banghead:

[DS1]

10. those password rules are stupid and counterproductive

because they make more people write them down on sticky notes and leave them under their keyboards, which defeats the whole purpose of having passwords

[mcctatas]

18. F'ing govt.

mine is a state gov't server and we have stupid requirements like that too, hence my totally NOT secure but at least reliable system :P

[FloridaJudy]

15. Isn't that amazing?

The place I used to work had the same requirement, which is why half my co-workers wrote the new ones down and placed them somewhere near their computers (and most of the other half had to repeatedly call IT to reset their computers since they'd forgotten their passwords). Like that's increasing security!

I came up with a system that worked pretty well for me, which involved leaving obscure password hints in a place that only I could access easily. But it sure was a royal pain.

[graywarrior]

3. Yeah! The book I keep my passwords in has crossouts, arrows, date changes

I can't even decifer my own notes anymore.

[motely36]

6. Send them to me and I will organize for you!

:evilgrin:

[snooper2]

9. write them down on a piece of paper

and tape it to the side of your monitor :)

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

11. I use RoboForm and I couldn't live without it!

I have about 170 passwords saved on RoboForm. I agree about the ones that need special symbols being a pain in the butt. RoboForm can also save your private information, including credit cards. It allows me to just click one button, and it fills in name, address, and credit card fields, including the little 3-digit code. And, yeah, RoboForm has its own password, but that would be the only one you would need to remember.

[Sentath]

16. I prefer KeePass

http://keepass.info/

lower .. key so to pun

[graywarrior]

17. What in hell are you doing here with your practical solutions?

Don't you realize we're all disorganized drama queens and wish to remain that way? We love bitching about NOTHING.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

25. LOL! n/t

[NJmaverick]

12. Just post all your passwords here

and we'll keep track of them for you. :evilgrin:

[bigwillq]

13. I basically have the same one

in various combinations. It just makes it easier for me to remember.

[SacredCow]

14. I hate when they have such specific "rules" for passwords to follow...

to the point that anything you create is nothing that one could feasibly remember.

[rockymountaindem]

19. That's why I use qwerty for everything n/t

[SeattleGirl]

20. With just a couple of exceptions, I use the same one for everything.

It's much easier that way.

[XemaSab]

21. I totally hear ya

If my name is Ramona H. Quimby, potential usernames are

RQuimby
RHQuimby
RamonaHQuimby
RamonaQuimby
Ramona Quimby

and XemaSab.

Then there's my PIN number, my short password, my medium password, my long password, and my password with extra numbers and exclamation points. And about three others. :banghead:

This leaves 34 different combinations if I want to log into an account. :banghead:

[JitterbugPerfume]

22. I use my kids (and grandkids) names

and sometimes my cats

[trof]

24. I don't believe I woulda told that.

:hi:

[Rambis]

23. Mozilla/firefox remember is yer friend

although you do have to write the bastards down somewhere since you will forget them:)