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Title: Default Profiles
Post by: Kevin on October 16, 2007, 08:48:52 PM
Feel free to shoot me if this is a feature that is already implemented, but I couldn't find it in the GUI or what exists of the Wiki.  I'd like to start using the PasswordMaker, but I have several groups of accounts based on what characters and minimum/maximum lengths the passwords may have.  The way I understand the program works now is that I would create a "group" to designate this property and create an individual subaccount for each (provided I wanted a different password for each).  Or, if I wanted the same password for a group, I could use my wildcards to have it apply to each.  What I can't do, however, is set up an account similar to the Default -- that is, use the URL/other component of the site in order to generate unique passwords.  Which means that I could set up a sane default, but would have to create a unique account for each site that differs from that (provided that I want unique passwords, which is one of the security features I hoped to benefit from using this program).  I don't imagine it would be hard to implement the URL-based text generation after the pattern matching, or it could even be included as an extra field or option to each pattern you set for an account.

To make matters worse, any site that uses a different username (and I have many) would need a separate account.  It would be nice to factor out some of the account-specific settings into group settings.  That way, accounts could inherit properties (say, usernames or password characteristics) in a group while changing other properties much easier than Copy -> Change.

Let me know if I'm off the mark here or not.

Thanks,

Kevin
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: tanstaafl on October 16, 2007, 09:21:52 PM
Feel free to shoot me

BANG !!!!

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if this is a feature that is already implemented,

Oh, sorry - I'm a bit trigger-happy these days... ;)

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The way I understand the program works now is that I would create a "group" to designate this property and create an individual subaccount for each (provided I wanted a different password for each).

Currently, the only function of Groups is for categorizing accounts... there are no 'Group Policies', or 'Group Characteristics' or anything like that... it is just a container for accounts, for organizational purposes.

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Or, if I wanted the same password for a group, I could use my wildcards to have it apply to each.

If you had a bunch of accounts that you wanted to share the same username/password, you can simply add all of the appropriate URL patterns for each site to an account. If you wanted to be able to use different usernames, you'd need a separate account. If you wanted these to share the same password, you could add the password field/value to the other accounts using the 'Advanced Auto-Populate' functionality.

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What I can't do, however, is set up an account similar to the Default -- that is, use the URL/other component of the site in order to generate unique passwords.

I'm not sure I understand the question... The only purpose of the URL Components selected in the 'Default Settings' account is to determine what parts of the URL are used to create the 'Use the following text' field on a new account. You can always change this field to any value you like...

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Which means that I could set up a sane default, but would have to create a unique account for each site that differs from that (provided that I want unique passwords, which is one of the security features I hoped to benefit from using this program).

Again, not sure I understand. PWM generates unique passwords for each site right now, even if you use the Defaults for every site you visit.

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I don't imagine it would be hard to implement the URL-based text generation after the pattern matching, or it could even be included as an extra field or option to each pattern you set for an account.

?? More confusion - I guess I'm missing something, sorry... :(

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To make matters worse, any site that uses a different username (and I have many) would need a separate account.

This is true - but - <shameless plug> - there is a long-standing Feature Request (http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php?topic=256) (feel free to vote for it) to add the Username and Modifier fields to the Master Password Prompt window, which would allow you to use a single account, but with different usernames... obviously, you would have to actually type in the username AND the Master Password, until Eric figures out a way for PWM to read our minds.

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It would be nice to factor out some of the account-specific settings into group settings.  That way, accounts could inherit properties (say, usernames or password characteristics) in a group while changing other properties much easier than Copy -> Change.

I use Groups in this way - yes, it would be 'nice' if you could define 'Group' settings that any new Account created under that Group would inherit, but there is a workaround - just create a 'Template' account inside/for each Group, with the settings you want new Accounts to inherit, then just 'Copy' the appropriate Template when creating a new Account and it has those settings.

Sorry I had a bit of trouble understanding - maybe if you reword your questions/issues... or maybe someone else is less brain-damaged than I am now (been a long day)...
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: Miquel 'Fire' Burns on October 17, 2007, 02:23:29 AM
I think I know what he wants.

Basically, you would define a bunch of default profiles/accounts that all you need to do is assign a URL pattern to use it instead of the normal default settings.

You got default settings you like, then you make a profile for sites that don't like special characters, then maybe another for a different username, etc.
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: tanstaafl on October 17, 2007, 11:25:03 AM
I think I know what he wants.

Basically, you would define a bunch of default profiles/accounts that all you need to do is assign a URL pattern to use it instead of the normal default settings.

You got default settings you like, then you make a profile for sites that don't like special characters, then maybe another for a different username, etc.

Yeah - basically my last comment about using 'Templates'... just my word for it...
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: Kevin on October 18, 2007, 04:00:39 PM
Right.  I think miquelfire understands.  The problem is with only being able to have one default profile.  I guess the only workaround is to copy a "template" and change the password and URL pattern for each site (but this is obviously less elegant than what I was suggesting).  The modifiable usernames would be a step in the right direction, but seeing that it's been a feature request pending for two years...

Thanks anyway.
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: waily on October 21, 2007, 02:46:46 AM
Create each account by using template is current solution. However, I'd like to illustrate an example.

For 50 websites, each have different chartsets for their passwords. People may simple divide two group of these passwords' requirement. One group can handle 20 chars and special chars for 30 website named 'settings A' and the other handle only 8 chars and no special chars for 20 websites named 'settings B'.

If people want to use different passwords for all 50 websites. He can do the following under current passwordmaker implementation.

1.Create a default account for 'settings A' and let this account handle all 30 websites
2.Create one by one accounts up to 20 for 'settings B' with different 'Using text'

That's it, total 21 accounts for all 50 websites with different password.
And people should be careful to type correct 'Using text' for each 20 accounts on settings B.

If these passwords break to three groups, The backup will be the most important key for these settings.

However, if the other account can have default account's urls tab and with url patterns (replace each typing 'Using text'), people can simply add all url patterns for these 20 websites and only two accounts needed for total 50 websites.
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: tanstaafl on October 22, 2007, 12:32:14 PM
Ok, I think I see what you are actually asking for... check me...

A new Account option checkbox that if checked would:

"Use calculated TLD of matched Pattern for the 'Using Text' value for calculating passwords for this Account."

This would allow you, in your example above, to only have TWO accounts, each with the appropriate Settings, but allowing Unique Passwords per URL Pattern...

I actually really like this idea... in fact, it came up in this thread (http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php/topic,1344.msg1280129.html#msg1280129), but apparently never made it into an official FR. I even created a mock-up of a new URL Pattern manager (see attached)...

Eric? You never weighed in on this one... what do you think?
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: Eric H. Jung on October 22, 2007, 09:14:14 PM
First of all: are Kevin and waily asking for the same thing or did waily hijack Kevin's thread?

But yeah, waily's idea is a good one It would minimize the number of accounts one has to create. I agree it's similar to http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php/topic,1344.msg1280129.html and, in fact, that thread describes it much better than this one. "Pattern-based Use the following text to calculate the generated password field" would be a good title.
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: tanstaafl on October 23, 2007, 02:03:01 AM
Ooops - yep, Kevins original request had more to do with the different usernames as opposed to URLs...

Heh - I know its like that danged Kudzu that just keeps growin and growin...

But what about making that:

"Pattern-based Username AND Use the following text to calculate the generated password fields" would be a good title.

<tanstaafl ducks as Eric throws anvil at him>
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: waily on October 23, 2007, 02:47:47 AM
"Pattern-based Username AND Use the following text to calculate the generated password fields"
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Well, too complicate ...  :)

Kevins original request is also complicated, too.

How about this, original account have only 'Use the following text to calculate the generated password'.
Add more options from default account's 'URL Components'. Uses can use just select 'Domain', 'Protocol' four options with additional 'Use Pattern-based following text'. However, the 'Pattern-based' can be the next version since it might took many test cases.

My original intention is just add these options from default account to not default account because this will save the programming time and produce greater feature for passwordmaker right NOW
OK, that's my request sine I do have lots of accounts to manage ....  :)
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: Eric H. Jung on October 23, 2007, 03:00:13 AM
But what about making that:

"Pattern-based Username AND Use the following text to calculate the generated password fields" would be a good title.

Why would anyone want the username dynamically calculated through patterns?? I think that anvil already hit your head :)

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Add more options from default account's 'URL Components'. Uses can use just select 'Domain', 'Protocol' four options with additional 'Use Pattern-based following text'.

Meh. Adding those four checkboxes to the custom accounts (non-default account) just gives you shortcuts to manually editing the URL already in the "Use the following text to calculate the generated password" field. Is that really what you want? If you want pattern-based text, just say so. I'm not particularly interested in adding all those checkboxes just to save a little bit of typing; it doesn't add any real new feature.
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: tanstaafl on October 23, 2007, 11:18:20 AM
But what about making that:

"Pattern-based Username AND Use the following text to calculate the generated password fields" would be a good title.

Why would anyone want the username dynamically calculated through patterns?? I think that anvil already hit your head :)

No, actually, I remember this conversation better now... I was arguing from your current point of view, because I didn't see the advantage then... I do now.

Understand, I'm not insisting that this should be done - but it IS a very interesting idea, and honestly, I don't see how it would be a bad thing to do - and, if you have a LOT of accounts, it could result in a much smaller RDF file - but, it would take some work. How much I don't know, but I'm imagining a bit.

Anyway, lets see if I can explain it better so you can at least see the advantage, whether or not you have any interest in implementing it...

Think of it as an alternative to creating multiple accounts... you create an 'account' that has the settings that you want for certain type of accounts - say, online forums (so, don't need to be as secure, so you may just limit the character set to lowercase letters and numbers)... then you simply add a 'pattern' for each site/forum that will be using these settings... with the addition of being able to have each pattern also use a different username AND use the TLD of the matched pattern, you can have one account that will populate different usernames and will use different 'Use the following Text...' to generate the password, thereby guaranteeing unique passwords for each.

So, used in this manner, an 'Account' is more like a container for a group of shared settings, and the patterns are what are used to generate the unique password, using the settings for the 'Account' - only the username and 'Using text' would be different for each.

Did I explain that right?

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Add more options from default account's 'URL Components'. Uses can use just select 'Domain', 'Protocol' four options with additional 'Use Pattern-based following text'.

Meh. Adding those four checkboxes to the custom accounts (non-default account) just gives you shortcuts to manually editing the URL already in the "Use the following text to calculate the generated password" field. Is that really what you want? If you want pattern-based text, just say so. I'm not particularly interested in adding all those checkboxes just to save a little bit of typing; it doesn't add any real new feature.

I agree...
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: Eric H. Jung on October 23, 2007, 04:31:52 PM
Think of it as an alternative to creating multiple accounts... you create an 'account' that has the settings that you want for certain type of accounts - say, online forums (so, don't need to be as secure, so you may just limit the character set to lowercase letters and numbers)... then you simply add a 'pattern' for each site/forum that will be using these settings... with the addition of being able to have each pattern also use a different username AND use the TLD of the matched pattern, you can have one account that will populate different usernames and will use different 'Use the following Text...' to generate the password, thereby guaranteeing unique passwords for each.

So, used in this manner, an 'Account' is more like a container for a group of shared settings, and the patterns are what are used to generate the unique password, using the settings for the 'Account' - only the username and 'Using text' would be different for each.

I understand. You can add it as "Multiple usernames per account, specified by pattern".
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: waily on October 24, 2007, 03:15:40 AM
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Add more options from default account's 'URL Components'. Uses can use just select 'Domain', 'Protocol' four options with additional 'Use Pattern-based following text'.

Meh. Adding those four checkboxes to the custom accounts (non-default account) just gives you shortcuts to manually editing the URL already in the "Use the following text to calculate the generated password" field. Is that really what you want? If you want pattern-based text, just say so. I'm not particularly interested in adding all those checkboxes just to save a little bit of typing; it doesn't add any real new feature.

I agree...

Huh ... maybe I think too much about implementation effort, but I think it will be great to just implement 'Pattern-based' feature for not default account.

Thanks for your great passwordmaker .... :)
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: tanstaafl on October 24, 2007, 12:36:43 PM
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Huh ... maybe I think too much about implementation effort, but I think it will be great to just implement 'Pattern-based' feature for not default account.

I don't understand... you can add patterns to all accounts EXCEPT the Default.

What is it exactly you are saying would be good to implement? Pattern-based 'Use the following text...' strings?

If Eric is going to add that, it only makes sense to go ahead and add the username too. Those are the only two variables I can see that would ever be wanted/needed there.
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: tanstaafl on October 24, 2007, 12:40:53 PM
I understand. You can add it as "Multiple usernames per account, specified by pattern".

Ok, but... I don't want to complicate this, but at the same time, there are a couple of questions on how it should work...

Ie... what about the 'Use the following text'... should this be on a per pattern basis too? Optional?

The potential problem is, if the same 'Use the following text' is used for all, and more than one pattern uses the same username, the password for those would be the same. I wouldn't want that.

Should you simply hard code this option so that if a pattern-specific username is specified, it automatically uses the TLD for that matched pattern? Or should this be optional?
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: tanstaafl on October 24, 2007, 06:27:18 PM
I understand. You can add it as "Multiple usernames per account, specified by pattern".

Done... (http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php/topic,1420.msg1280840.html#msg1280840)

Added a vote from Kevin and waily...
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: tanstaafl on October 24, 2007, 06:41:31 PM
Should you simply hard code this option so that if a pattern-specific username is specified, it automatically uses the TLD for that matched pattern? Or should this be optional?

Or, maybe, should we consider just totally moving the current username and 'Use the following text...' fields into the pattern totally? The only exception would be the 'Defaults' Account... I think it would make sense, if you implement this, but maybe I haven't considered all of the ramifications.

And honestly - the more I think about this idea, the more I like it. It will dramatically reduce the number of Accounts I have now - by as much as 90%. I can see going from 100+ down to less than 10. And the RDF file should be much smaller, due to the reduced duplication of settings, since all of my accounts share one of 8 or 10 settings configs.

Question: will this have any impact (negative or positive) on performance? Meaning, will it be faster or slower to search the patterns, as opposed to the Accounts the way they are now?
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: Eric H. Jung on October 24, 2007, 08:02:02 PM
Question: will this have any impact (negative or positive) on performance? Meaning, will it be faster or slower to search the patterns, as opposed to the Accounts the way they are now?
Definite negative performance hit, although it might not be noticeable unless you had hundreds of patterns. I have no idea without some benchmarking.

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what about the 'Use the following text'... should this be on a per pattern basis too? Optional?
You can go crazy and say that all fields, including the ones on the Extended tab (e.g., modifier) should work based on patterns. I think we'll end up complicating the UI and general usability significantly by doing this.
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: tanstaafl on October 24, 2007, 09:08:56 PM
Ok, then, two good reasons not to do it...  8)

One thing though... how much work is the sorting stuff going to be? One thing that I liked about this idea was it would lessen the number of accounts - but the real problem I have is not really the number of accounts, it is the inability to sort them easily. Mine are a mess, and trying to sort using the broken way it works is royally frustrating.

Obviously this is only a real problem for those of us who have a lot of accounts, but hey - we're users too... ;)

We really need to get sorting working, even if it is a simple click/select, then 'Move Up' or 'Move Down' buttons. Drag-n-Drop would be nice, but not a requirement...
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: waily on October 25, 2007, 08:59:55 AM
OK. Now I get some idea about 'Multiple Usernames per account, by pattern'

My original idea is to add another account with the 'Url Components' just like default account had plus 'Use the following text ...... ' as fifth option.  However after reading these messages I found I might misunderstand the meaning of 'pattern based'.

Back to original situation I illustrate, the idea is let the 'using text' can be calculated and populated automatically from current website's url on not default account just like default account does. And also if someone want to type the specified 'using text', he can also check the 'five' checkbox (default account have four checkbox) for that specified account and password will be generated by  calculating that text plus other four optons if selected when the url patterns match.

At this point, I don't mention about username. And if someone have two usernames for a specified website, then he will get the same password since 'using text' calculated and auto populated from same website. If he want two different password for the same website, he need to create another account.

Above is my original idea and since it only add 'Url Components' to not default account, it might cost less programming effort and can have different password for different website.

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Now take usernames into consideration. It's a many (usernames) to many(websites) situation. Let me illustrate if this is what 'Multiple Usernames per account, by pattern' says.

someone have five useranmes on google, yahoo, as following
username   site
A          google   
AA         google
AAA        google
A          yahoo
AAA        yahoo

With only one account to handle these usernames, add url pattern as following
'*google.com*', '*yahoo.com*'.

When type 'alt+`' on google.com, passwordmaker will popup a window with three choices 'A', 'AA', 'AAA', select one and type master password to generate the password.

on yahoo.com, will popup a window with two choices, 'A', 'AAA'.

The implementation is to keep the username-site 'table' into that account. Master password can be saved in memory, however, each time we need to select a specified username to login on these websites.

However, I think it is hard to manage this account since it can have multiple usernames and multiple website. for example, how to 'name' this account ? 'Google+Yahoo' ? "A+B usernames" ?

Kevin's 'inheritance' will make accounts much complicate, too.

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Although it is possible for a person to have two usernames on one website just like google, yahoo. Most of us still using only one username for one website. And if I am correct, most of us 'try to' use the same username for these websites as following.

username   site
A          investment
A          sports
A          health
AB         company (oh, someone took A, I can only take 'AB' as my username)
AB         club (oh, someone took A, since I have 'AB' for another website,
                 I'd like to choose 'AB' as my username)

How about using my original idea ?
Create one account, check 'Domain', in 'Extented' tab 'Username' field type 'A', add url pattern 'investment', 'sports', 'health'.
Create second account, check 'Domain', in 'Extented' tab 'Username' field type 'AB', add url pattern 'company', 'club'.

When login 'investment', generate password from 'investment'+'A'.
When login 'club', generate password from 'club'+'AB'.
Above two situation can be easy type 'alt+`' without additional username selecting.

With only two accounts (as different usernames), one can handle many different websites.
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: tanstaafl on October 25, 2007, 11:51:46 AM
My original idea is to add another account with the 'Url Components' just like default account had plus 'Use the following text ...... ' as fifth option.

I don't understand... you can put whatever you wantg into the 'Using text...' field - adding the ability to customize it with checkboxes adds a lot of complexity with no benefit.

Either I'm missing something, or you are... ;)

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Back to original situation I illustrate, the idea is let the 'using text' can be calculated and populated automatically from current website's url on not default account just like default account does. And also if someone want to type the specified 'using text', he can also check the 'five' checkbox (default account have four checkbox) for that specified account and password will be generated by  calculating that text plus other four optons if selected when the url patterns match.

Again - you can ALREADY DO THIS - just enter whatever it is that you want to match on for that account in the 'Use the folloiwng text...' box when you create the account... done...

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Above is my original idea and since it only add 'Url Components' to not default account, it might cost less programming effort and can have different password for different website.

This is what you cannot currently do.

This discussion boils down to a matter of HOW to use PWM:

1. One Account per username/'Use the following text...' combo, or

2. Account > One Pattern per username/'Use the following text...' combo

Currently, you must do it the first way. It works now.

What has been requested is to ADD the ability to use different username/'Use the following text...' values on a per PATTERN basis. Eric has said that doing so will have a NEGATIVE impact on performance, and on that basis alone I am against adding this functionality. He also mentions the 'slippery slope' problem, and he is right... there will always be someone who wants one or more of the other fields to be included...

I really like the concept - it would dramatically increase the flexibility of PWM - but the bottom line is, you can accomplish the same behavior simply by adding a separate ACCOUNT, so it really doesn't matter...

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With only two accounts (as different usernames), one can handle many different websites.

You may be interested in an existing Feature Request for a New 'Default' and 'Advanced' Security Modes (http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php/topic,1359.msg1279932.html#msg1279932) that will provide this type of functionality... essentially, you could add the TLD of the sites in question, and because this new 'Default' security mode would cause the 'Calculated URL' to be used for generating the password - NOT what is in the 'Use the following text...' field - you would get a different password for each site.
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: tanstaafl on October 25, 2007, 12:12:56 PM
Hey Eric,

Please read this carefully - and please re-read my FR referenced below (you still haven't ever weighed in on it)...

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what about the 'Use the following text'... should this be on a per pattern basis too? Optional?
You can go crazy and say that all fields, including the ones on the Extended tab (e.g., modifier) should work based on patterns. I think we'll end up complicating the UI and general usability significantly by doing this.

Hmmm... after my revelation that my FR for a New 'Default' and 'Advanced' Security Modes (http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php/topic,1359.msg1279932.html#msg1279932) was missing a critical point that made it unclear as to one of the biggest benefits (I have updated it to clarify this), and giving this further thought, I'll now make the following argument...

There are only TWO Default fields (meaning, fields other than a Custom field that is added through the 'Advanced Auto-Populate' Tab) that are actually populated on a web form/site: username, and password.

For this reason, it makes sense to add the username field to the pattern list because it is the ONLY other field that is:

Site-Specific,
Used for Password Calculation, and
Actually populated on a form.

If the above referenced FR were implemented, as well as the ability to add an optional username that would be used both for password calculation - wow... this would be huge, imnsho...
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: waily on October 25, 2007, 02:29:22 PM
My original idea is to add another account with the 'Url Components' just like default account had plus 'Use the following text ...... ' as fifth option.

I don't understand... you can put whatever you wantg into the 'Using text...' field - adding the ability to customize it with checkboxes adds a lot of complexity with no benefit.

Either I'm missing something, or you are... ;)

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Back to original situation I illustrate, the idea is let the 'using text' can be calculated and populated automatically from current website's url on not default account just like default account does. And also if someone want to type the specified 'using text', he can also check the 'five' checkbox (default account have four checkbox) for that specified account and password will be generated by  calculating that text plus other four optons if selected when the url patterns match.

Again - you can ALREADY DO THIS - just enter whatever it is that you want to match on for that account in the 'Use the folloiwng text...' box when you create the account... done...

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Above is my original idea and since it only add 'Url Components' to not default account, it might cost less programming effort and can have different password for different website.


Huh, maybe I don't explain it clearly ... the key is 'automatic'

What I want is 'automatic' populate the url's Domain (the third option) into password calculation for 'not default account'. The benefit is you can use only one 'not default account' to login different website with different generated password.

Current passwordmaker if we need to generate different password for different website, we need to create each account and type each 'Use the following text ...' one by one manually.

Why not use default account ? Because each website have different password rule and maybe divide into two group, one for default and the others for the reset or, even more group of password rules.

Why I want this feature ? Because I don't want to create so many accounts to generate different password for each website. I don't want to type the 'Using the following ...' for these websites (I may typo, oh no, I can't get the password next time I fix the correct text !).

And for "per username/'Use the following text...' combo", it will make that account
much difficult to describe and uneasy to manage, and with any kind of implementation, you will still need to select the specified username. However, with current implementation, we can assign each account by username, the username describe itself. Moreover, if only one username used for a specified website, with master password store in memory, simply 'alt+`' will put the username and password for you!

Back to performance issue, since it only copy the four option from default, others remain the same with current passwordmaker, I think this is not going to impact the performance.
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: tanstaafl on October 25, 2007, 03:25:28 PM
Huh, maybe I don't explain it clearly ... the key is 'automatic'

What I want is 'automatic' populate the url's Domain (the third option) into password calculation for 'not default account'. The benefit is you can use only one 'not default account' to login different website with different generated password.

Right... but there is really no difference between doing this via a separate URL pattern, or via a separate account - it is more a matter of IMPLEMENTATION.

As I said - You CAN ALREADY DO THIS - but yes, you have to create a separate ACCOUNT for each site, rather than creating a separate URL PATTERN in a single ACCOUNT. Either way, you have to create SOMETHING.

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Current passwordmaker if we need to generate different password for different website, we need to create each account and type each 'Use the following text ...' one by one manually.

Yep - and if what you are suggesting was implemented, you would have to add a different URL pattern for each, MANUALLY.

As I said, I do like the idea, but it isn't what I would call critical, because there is a very usable workaround.

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Why not use default account ? Because each website have different password rule and maybe divide into two group, one for default and the others for the reset or, even more group of password rules.

Right again - this is WHY you have different accounts - to handle the different rules. All you are talking about is turning PWM on its head, and using the URL Patterns instead of Accounts to manage things.

6 to one, half-dozen to another...

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Why I want this feature ? Because I don't want to create so many accounts to generate different password for each website.

So instead of having to create so many accounts, you would have to create so many URL patterns.

Again - 6 to one, half-dozen to another.

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I don't want to type the 'Using the following ...' for these websites (I may typo, oh no, I can't get the password next time I fix the correct text !).

It is automatically populated for you if you create the new Account while on the site in question...

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And for "per username/'Use the following text...' combo", it will make that account
much difficult to describe and uneasy to manage, and with any kind of implementation, you will still need to select the specified username. However, with current implementation, we can assign each account by username, the username describe itself. Moreover, if only one username used for a specified website, with master password store in memory, simply 'alt+`' will put the username and password for you!

Again - I don't really see the issue. One way or another, you have to add the criteria for recognizing each account

And again - if you go read it, you will see that if the New 'Default' and 'Advanced' Security Modes (http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php/topic,1359.msg1279932.html#msg1279932) feature is implemented, it will do everything you want...
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: tanstaafl on October 25, 2007, 03:28:05 PM
By the way - as I said before, I do understand the benefit to what you are suggesting, and even like the idea - but it simply isn't necessary to accomplish your end result. Once you have set up the Accounts, it all 'just works'.
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: waily on October 25, 2007, 04:19:48 PM
By the way - as I said before, I do understand the benefit to what you are suggesting, and even like the idea - but it simply isn't necessary to accomplish your end result. Once you have set up the Accounts, it all 'just works'.

OK, currently we need to create many accounts for these situations.

All I illustrate is just an example for minimum effort (my guess, maybe not correct) to accomplish these features. though it may need to think much deeper than simply end this way.
Title: Re: Default Profiles
Post by: tanstaafl on October 25, 2007, 04:26:55 PM
By the way - as I said before, I do understand the benefit to what you are suggesting, and even like the idea - but it simply isn't necessary to accomplish your end result. Once you have set up the Accounts, it all 'just works'.

OK, currently we need to create many accounts for these situations.

Or many Patterns - as I said, either way, you have to create SOMETHING...

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All I illustrate is just an example for minimum effort (my guess, maybe not correct) to accomplish these features. though it may need to think much deeper than simply end this way.

No worries - I do appreciate your thoughts - and in fact you've given me another idea, but I'll have to think on it some...