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by ghfdrvtsyup 5941 days ago
If you have that many passwords, why not make some sort of base password and then riff off of the base password for everything that needs access (and have a mental sequence for when an item needs a reset)? If your base password is at the highest complexity requirement, the only thing you need to remember is the individual sequences.

I do this for my passwords and it's been working for me for years ...

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That's more or less what I do. Not everyone cottons on to this scheme though. With the logins I might use once every 6 months or so, it can still be hard to remember which variation I'm on, especially if it's a "three tries then you're locked out" system.