The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #159730   Message #3785490
Posted By: CupOfTea
15-Apr-16 - 12:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Those Problematic Passwords
Subject: BS: Those Problematic Passwords
I just spent the last hour trying to establish, or possibly re-establish, membership on another forum and encountered roadblocks with retrieving a forgotten password for a name I'm not sure I was using. With each forum, bank account, credit card, utility payment, tax account, webpages, emails, wifi, etc,etc, and on and on, you may have a different name and password. One work account expects me to change a complex one about every 3 weeks!

How on earth do folks keep track of all of these? I'm starting to have them listed as I create them now, but where to keep it safe, yet easily accessible? Do you have a system to organize and record them? Have name and passwords in different places? I would dearly know how folks manage it without going bonkers. I also realize that since anonymous posts are no longer possible in the BS section, people might not want to get REAL specific in their replies, but I don't think I can be the only one wrassling with password frustration.

Joanne in Cleveland
(whose Mudcat password is the one leftover from the days before you had to change it all the time)