easier selection of passwords

[Alec Hill]

Thanks all, these are helpful responses :)

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 12:25 PM Kjetil Torgrim Homme
<kjetil.homme at redpill-linpro.com> wrote:
>
> On 17/02/2021 17:28, Alec Hill wrote:
> > Hello dear people!  I'm wondering if there are any
> > suggestions/solutions/thoughts about easier selection of passwords...
> >
> > With dozens of passwords in variously nested directories, it can be
> > hard to remember where one lives.  I could spend time better
> > organizing my password folder structure and memorizing this...
>
> Sounds like your organization into nested directories is detrimental
> rather than helpful.  I keep it simple: I have just two top-level
> directories, "job" and "private", and the filenames inside are the
> domain names for the places the password is for.  If I need more
> accounts on a domain, I let the domain be a directory with one file per
> account.
>
> (I also add symlinks manually when there is a less than obvious
> connection between the login screen domain and the service name.  I
> would definitely like to see an extension to make it easier to create
> these - having to "cd ~/.password-store; ln -s foo bar; git add bar; git
> commit" is a bit inconvenient.)
>
>
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> Kjetil T. Homme
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