[hnews_account_1]

My mom cannot understand how to use auto fill etc, but what I did was to set up a KeePass database file for her on her google drive and just sync it up on every device. She refuses to use anything but an android and she acquiesced to an iPad when I told her android tablets are still catching up. So I just found the most common service - google - and put everything on it. She now knows to open it and expose the password as well as create new entries. She still can’t copy paste or handle the generator.

My dad does not give a flying fuck however many times you tell him and just writes it down in a notebook. He just doesn’t care despite much of the family wealth residing mostly in his accounts.

[milosmns]

I've never heard of mobile OS being THE barrier for using password managers. It's usually a ton of other things... after all, both of our favorite OSs use autofill from the keyboard bar, so it should be straightforward. But hey, I have a similar parent. I just installed it for him and told him this is the new way... "computer programmers made it this way now".

[hnews_account_1]

It’s not the mobile OS so much as the fact that I want something I can troubleshoot easily and isn’t hidden behind several layers of UX. KeePass satisfies that. I just shared my mom’s database file with me on Drive so I can also access it in case of issues. If not, I’d need a service that can support like family sharing and shit and they may ask for extra money. This is easier and more secure since my mom has no idea how to share things from Drive so she won’t even do it by mistake.

The auto fill part is relatively straightforward to us but it takes a while to get used to for the previous generation. In fact, despite showing her how to create new entries, she spent the last 2 years still writing it down in her Google Keep notes app. Had to spend a non trivial amount of time transferring them over this holiday.