RANT - Logins (not as dorky as you may think)

[snizo]

http://www.athena-scs.com/product.asp?pid=1

$30, and that's for small quantities. Why NMCI doesn't buy 1000s of these and give them to whoever asks is beyond me. You'd have to self-support, I imagine, but hell, I'm doing that now anyway. (Half of the printers upstairs are inop. NMCI "has a ticket in on it.")

They do that for reservists. My OSC had a box of about 300 of those things - free to anyone who asked.

...but reservists spend more time at their home computer and wouldn't otherwise have access to @navy.mil email.

 

[Machine]

To save time lost trying to remember or reset passwords, I now have a 3x5 card with all of the login/passwords on there (save ACOL - that one is memorized), which pretty much defeats the purpose of having logins and passwords, but damn.

Any thoughts?

Actually, this does not defeat the purpose of login/passwords. This is a very smart thing to do (security wise), and is recommended to put this in your wallet (not on a sticky on your monitor).

For Windows (a Java version is in-work for other platforms) a nice utility is Password Safe. Throw this on some portable storage media, and then you only need to remember the password to unlock your database.

 

[Pags]

I was a big fan of the PDA for that reason and I found it indispensable on my last tour. For things like multiple categorized to do lists and keeping track of contact information for all the millions of people you tend to deal with, I found it hard to beat. I haven't used it here for school at all (not all that busy), but I'll probably pick up a new one once I head back to a squadron. These days you can use them for word/excel documents and what not.

Brett

Yeah, I guess I might be able to get on board with something like that, especially since it looks like things aren't gonna get any less busy for me when I get back to the real world in a little bit. As long as I don't loose it like I did all the paper ones...or just leave it at home where it's useless. any recommendations for a decent model?

 

[snake020]

AF has done a pretty good job of going CAC everything. Occasionally I'll have some random annual CBT based at some odd DoD website which will be password only, but other than that we pretty much operate password free.

 

[Brett327]

Yeah, I guess I might be able to get on board with something like that, especially since it looks like things aren't gonna get any less busy for me when I get back to the real world in a little bit. As long as I don't loose it like I did all the paper ones...or just leave it at home where it's useless. any recommendations for a decent model?

I've been browsing around a bit. I'll probably get the Palm TX. I don't need a fancy one with a phone/camera/MP3. I like the ones that are relatively slim so they fit comfortably into a flight suit front pocket.

Brett

 

[Gatordev]

For Windows (a Java version is in-work for other platforms) a nice utility is Password Safe. Throw this on some portable storage media, and then you only need to remember the password to unlock your database.

That's assuming that EDS hasn't disabled the USB ports on that particular client machine, which they seem to randomly do.

 

[Steve Wilkins]

We just use an excel spreadsheet...
All your navy crap, plus BOL, NPC, prims...plus your bank, your-mail, any on-line shopping, all your utility companies....

This is exactly what I do. I have a few different passwords I used depending on the subject matter. I will say this though. I've been able to use the same Airwarriors password from the very beginning. I've never had to change it.

 

[Gatordev]

Hmm.....let's see, where's that button?

 

[Mumbles]

When I read the title to this thread I thought it was going to be a rant about Kenny Loggins. Not logins. This is alot less dorky though.
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[SMILE4BULLETS]

The good ole days

ahhhhhhhhh the memories...

 

[ChuckMK23]

A simple alternative to jotting down your dozen or so logins is to simply use some sort of "password safe" tool - of which there are many. The tool simply uses a mini database with encryption to store all your login info in one place

A very nice open source tool: PasswordSafe