[eimrine]

> learning to use a password manager has effectively eliminated dozens if not hundreds of passwords

Generating passwords properly gets rid of need of any password manager while each password keeps being unique. It is useful if most of my devices for internets don't have any password manager implemented (example - any Blackberry/Symbian/Opera Mini)

[kemotep]

Absolutely, which is why I use a custom diceware list to generate the few dozen passwords between work and home that I have to manually type out, such as my computer logins, phone, etc. Drives my wife crazy for our shared accounts that I use random strings of words numbers and symbols. The password manager is highly effective at creating even stronger passwords and managing the 50+ accounts that I can copy and paste the information into, such as this Hacker News account. And even serves as a safe place to save passwords that I rarely use and could otherwise forget.

[tzs]

What do you do if you need to change the password for a site, such as a site that enforced password age limits or a site that has had a leak that exposed passwords?

[eimrine]

Just add # symbol to the end. If you have an age limit for password, it is an ability to know how many old passwords the system remembers.