[ale] How do you store your passwords?

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Fri Nov 9 14:05:51 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:51 -0500, Nick Ali wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2007 1:33 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> > Nick Ali wrote:
> > >
> > > There is no easy solution for not having GPG installed on the
> > > computer. With different architectures and libraries, carrying around
> > > binaries isn't a realistic option. But I can't remember the last time
> > > I've seen a linux machine without GPG, but yeah, this could be a
> > > problem.
> >
> > Put linux on the USB stick and make it bootable. Keep the passwords in a
> > GPG-encrypted file or an encrypted partition.
> 
> This is interesting. How would this work though? If I need the
> passwords to access something on machine Foo, I need to boot off the
> usb stick, get the password, and then boot back into machine Foo?

vmware-player and puppy-linux.
> 
> nick
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