HOWTO use Password Manager

[Temlakos]

Earlier today, someone asked about a good, compact password management 
system. Then someone else asked how to integrate it into his other 
operations.

I've been playing around with Password Manager and have a few insights:

1.	Password Manager lets you store your passwords and list them in one 
place, and even to let you use a "normal" Master Password to manage 
incredibly complex passwords that you'd never remember. It also lets 
/you/ pick the name and location of this file, or even to manage more 
than one such file.

2.	PWManager will even launch other applications that load 
password-protected documents.

I haven't yet figured out how to feed a password into Firefox where it 
asks for a username. But I have a few tips for anyone who's interested 
in using it to its fullest:

1.	Install a good password generator. Gnome has one available. You set 
the number of passwords you want, and how many characters each one 
should have, and press a button labeled "Execute." Instantly you have 
all the passwords you need, quicker than it takes to read this.

2.	Give your password file a "hidden" name. That's right--begin it with 
a dot. PWManager will restrict read and write permissions to the owner 
(and refuse execute permissions), and will encrypt everything in the 
file--but take my advice, people; you need to hide the file itself. So 
use a name like ".pwds.pwm"--and don't forget that beginning dot.

Other than that, just play around with it. The command to run it is 
"pwmanager" or "/usr/bin/pwmanager". I added it to my top panel and have 
already used it to store a randomly generated password for managing a 
remotely hosted business Web site. It already shows a lot of promise for 
my operations, and I'm sure I'll find other uses for it.

My only quarrel with it: Why does it show so much preference for KDE 
that I can't even load the manual?

Temlakos