Why don't you remember your passwords?

Because I have 80 million of them, plus a whole host of other crap that I’m supposed to memorize, like PIN numbers and whatever.

oh don’t get me started
“i never had to fill out a password”
“yes you did when you created that account”
“are you calling me a liar?”

last week i had an even better one
“so, what’s the application you use that causes it?”
“i click on it”
“yes, i know but..what’s the program called?”
“oh i can’t be bothered with that”
“then how can i help you?”
“i don’t know, you’re the wizz kid, you figure it out”

no customers would make my job a whole lot easier…

@iwamoto: LAFAO&ROFTIP! YES! I feel your pain!

But, yes…customers are the unfortunate side effect of a successful business. It’s just even more unfortunate that “challenged” ones keep it “interesting.”

And to the “Are you calling me a liar?” comment, I actually had that once. I simply told them that if they wanted to discuss this further, perhaps we could get their supervisor involved? Then they could explain to them why they forgot their password and were thus not getting their work done and meeting those all-important deadlines. But since we are on the phone now, we could solve this more quickly by just cooperating and not trying to be argumentative. MmmmKayyy? (I actually left the “MmmmKayyy?” out, but SOOO wanted to end it with that.) Yeah, don’t try me. You will lose. I’m the IT guy and I can make your life better, or MUCH, MUCH worse. Your choice.

There are just too many passwords to remember and I was unfortunate enough not to be blessed with a photographic memory. Or any good memory for that matter.

I don’t have to remember them. Firefox does that for me! :)

i dont like the too many passwords excuse. This is why you make your passwords something person, that way they are easy to remember. And you really dont need a different password for every single thing, you can reuse some just dont use the same ones for all your really important stuff.

All I’m saying is.. half the time I can’t remember what password I use for what site. I end up having to run through all five of them.

@alenad thats fine, i think everyone does that time to time, but at least you dont have to call the IT guys to bitch about how you forgot.

For example, my online checking account makes me change the pw every six weeks. That gets really annoying. And I just changed my email address; that make everything even more complicated.

My brokerage firm asks for a really wonky and unlearnable alphanumberic code. When I tried to use my cat’s name, the firm told me it was too easy.

The library loan system makes me type in an 11 digit bar code every time I check in; the autofill won’t work on library’s OS platform.

1 password for all “free” email accounts—like gmail.
1 password for all “free” services that take email as registration—like Fluther.
1 password for all “vital” services—like banking.
1 password for internal business accounts—like my company laptop.
1 password for external business accounts—like customer telnet/ssh.

(For customer stuff, I always write those down).

I got tired of making up passwords, so I grabbed a list of 8 letter words, found all the ones with “O” and “E” that I like, and then replace the “O” with zero and “E” with three (note the respective proximities). Voíla! Instant alpha-numeric non-dictionary password.

iwamoto and maccmann LOL. I am not as bad as those people.

At one time, I had a few passwords that I used…I would start whipping through them and it was funny when after about 3 guesses, they would say something like ”.....perhaps a flower of some kind..?”

Now, after having a few jaw clenching experiences where I choked on coming up w/ a password, I now know all of my passwords.

i remember i had a password i couldn’t remember, and the hint was “school password from wargames” and, yes, “pencil” it was, haha

in the end a biometric one would be the ultimate answer, but then again, i like to spy on my ex from time to time (uses same password everywhere, never changed it”, and i couldn’t be able to do that anymore :(

I don’t want a biometric one. When it comes to some crook wanting to jack access into my goods, I’d like to keep my fingers attached and eyeballs in my head, thank you very much.

I don’t forget my passwords…

yipe, yipe, yipe…

I don’t remember my passwords because I do have passwords that I remember and use for the 146 systems that I need the for. And then…just when I have it down, one of the systems ask me to P-Synch, and all of a sudden I have rogue. Then I encounter a system that rates the strength of my password, and won’t let me use the one that I can remember, and makes me come up with a variation of it. Then I decide that perhaps the variation should be the password that I should use for all the systems I use, so I change it as I use systems. But wait. 60 days pass, and I have to P-Synch again. So I have to start over, and change the passwords again. The cycle begins again. Then I encounter a system that I don’t use very often, and all of a sudden, GUESS WHAT! I can’t remember what the password is for that system because I’ve been through 8 variations since the last time I used it.

I thought I’d be cleaver and keep a spreadsheet on my desktop with all my passwords, but if my laptop was stolen, that would spell disaster. So I kept a notebook with all the passwords in it, but am uneasy about the security of that, too.

Help!

I use a variation of one master password depending on how important the account is. This way I never forget regardless of how unsafe it is.

I remember mine, but on a side note, you’re welcome.

I don’t forget my passwords. This is because they are all variations on a theme. I have my basic password and change it according to the complexity of the requirements. I switch around the order and add numbers or letters as needed.

I recently shifted my linux passwords just because I felt like it (strangely enough). I remember passwords I make up instantly, that’s why I make them up as such. I have short ones for forums which are alphanumeric and then I have longer ones with symbols in as well for more important things.

@asmonet lol that was pretty funny

@uber: I love the part where he’s al, did you take the website down? no? nancy said you took it down? i mean, uh yeah.

….your icons are arranged to say fuk u! and then a giant penis…..

whoa, heh i’m taking a picture of this, this is going on boingo boingo. whats boingo boingo? nothing.
…the website was on the tip of the penis! now i can’t find anything, what do you mean, dude it’s alphabetical
how long has it been like this? i dunno, eight or nine years?

I don’t tend to forget my passwords. Sites I don’t care about have the same password and everything else important usually has a password generated from with http://supergenpass.com. I like that a lot because I can use it from any browser without having to import anything.