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Posted by satis
Jan 18, 2023 at 05:21 PM

MadaboutDana wrote:
> I make do with Apple’s own KeyChain nowadays, which is pretty robust.

It’s a safe if archaic choice if you restrict your web browsing to Safari. But a good password manager allows you to store passwords for things like FTP sites, other computers/devices, serial numbers and purchase info for software, pdf receipts, credit card and bank info for auto-fill, and more.

Some sites don’t do auto-fill login well or at all, and a good password manager makes it much faster to copy/paste than Keychain does.

1Password saves your password history which can be very useful. For example on occasion a site won’t accept a changed password because of specific parameters needed and if you used Keychain it’d kill off the old one during Save of the new one, leaving you without your still-valid old password, thus screwing you over.

I don’t know if it’s still the case, but Keychain used to be unable to deal with multiple URLs on a login entry, so microsoft.com, xbox.com, and live.com (which share the same login information) needed separate entries in keychain.

And good password managers have family password management and sharing. In recent months Apple added the ability to share passwords manually via AirDrop, but tha’s clunky.

And 1Password does multi-factor auth transparently, automatically pasting into the clipboard (if authorized) the time-limited token-code.