Lost allpasswords on zorin 84/11/2023 ![]() ![]() I am the one who ‘fixes’ my Hubby’s computer and I frequently forget his initial password, thank goodness for my index card. One other tip, always keep your initial password for starting your computer these days, on a piece of paper or my preference an index card. If, this is your personal computer or laptop.Juar ask to “re-set” your password. These two actions together increase your overall online security tremendously.” If I am already doing “a” and “b” without using LastPass (or some other password managers), will using LastPass anyway give me some additional benefits? For example, does the way LastPass inserts the password on the website make it more secure than if I manually type the password in? Does LastPass make it harder for keyloggers or some other malware to steal my password? I’m not using LastPass (yet), so my apologies if these are stupid questions.ġ) You mention early in the article that “if there’s a downside to using a password vault it’s that, used properly, you don’t know your own passwords.” Is this because LastPass doesn’t allow us to know or just that we don’t need to know the passwords? I’m guessing it’s the latter case as you do tell us later in the article to back up the contents of our password vault, which I assume means something like print out a list of your passwords.Ģ) You also mention in the article that “Using a password vault, you can (a) easily use longer, more secure passwords, and (b) easily use different passwords for every site. ![]() ![]() That way, you’ll never be in this position again. Back up the contents of your password vault regularly.Remember those new passwords using a password vault. ![]() Should I ever lose access to my LastPass account, I’ll always have that backup from which to start over. For example, I regularly back up my LastPass vault, unencrypted, and save it in a different, secure location. Ideally, back it up in an unencrypted form which you then save in some different, yet secure, way. Specifically, back up the contents of your password vault. So, instead, fall back on my other most common recommendation: back up. It also doesn’t account for other things that can go wrong. It’s easy to say, “Don’t forget your vault password” and leave it at that. Over time, you’ll rebuild the database of passwords stored in your password vault. There’s no requirement that you do it all immediately.Īs you go about your day and attempt to log in to an account for which you haven’t reset a password, do so.
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