If you have a lot of accounts and passwords, you can get password-management software that will keep track of them for you. All you have to do is remember one password to view all the others. Some of this software is free, some is not, and you can get it for most operating systems, or even for your smartphone or PDA.

My problem is that I use multiple computers, running both Linux and Windows, and I want to be able to access my passwords from all of them. There are password managers that are “portable”, ie., you can put them on a USB drive and run the software from different computers, but most of these will only run on one operating system.

Password Gorilla is free software that you can use to create a secure password database, on a USB thumb-drive, that you can access from Windows, Mac, or Linux.

I’ve written instructions here.

(The instructions are specifically for Windows and Linux. If you use a Mac, you can probably figure out what you need to do from the Password Gorilla website.)

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