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I have a question for those of you who use password managers like this: I have 3 computers, an iPhone, and an iPad, on all of which I interact with a lot of the same sites and applications for which I need passwords. How would I go about managing passwords for all the devices? Mobile devices in particular seem problematic.

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I just put a KeePass file on my DropBox which automatically syncs to my devices.

I do the same. Portability of the password manager was as important as how it was stored. If I couldn't get it on my many machines, it wasn't any good to me. Highly recommended.

This is my method as well. I use iKeePass on my iDevice. It's not pretty, but it works.

Cool. You can put pass's password-store in Dropbox too!

Unfortunately, until there are mobile clients (using either Dropbox or git, I suppose), it's kind of a non-starter. I spend too much time on mobile devices now to not have that be a primary consideration. After using Keepass+Dropbox, I won't go to anything less convenient (and the problem-space doesn't intestate me to build a solution).

I use it on my mobile phone without a hitch.

I saw your other comment. Unfortunately, there is at least one, very large, platform where the terminal access is not really an option. Does Windows mobile OS provide terminal access?

> Does Windows

Thank you, come again!

Meh. Don't be platform-phobic.

Honestly, people use what is best for them. That may be Windows, it may be Linux. Point is, don't knock it if it works for them.

I'm not platform phobic. I've got more traumatic memories digging deep into win32 innards than I care to admit...

Point is, I'm not wasting my time trying to wrestle cygwin into shape, let alone investigating cygwin on windows phone.

That said, this could probably be re-implemented pretty easily using native win32 or .net... or whatever.

More bloated password managers (like 1pass, for example) come with mobile clients and cloud services. This thread will probably include many such replies.

Pass comes with integrated git support, for syncing and logging. This is what I use with my mobile phone and additional computers, and it works really well.

Not being argumentative, I just don't understand.

How do you use it on your mobile phone? Is there a git app that lets you browse files? How would you decrypt them? Can you update them?

Or do you just use a shell on your mobile phone?

Yea so... I could make a nice fancy app, which I could do super quick because the design of pass is so simple. But instead I just use the terminal. Full clipboard support and everything with it. By the way, I'm using an N950.

Syncing via git (an active process) sounds like more work than passive DropBox syncing.

True. Autosyncers work with pass just as well. DropBox to your heart's content!

Google Drive or Dropbox.

Awesome idea. Since pass is just normal files, dropbox & friends can do things seamlessly. Didn't have that in mind originally, but it seems like it'd work really well.

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