In this blog post i am going to describe how to use hash passwords for logging into your Mail accounts.
Whats the importance of it..?
Well we all know that every single user may have single or multiple accounts with same or different passwords. Remembering different passwords for different accounts could be a challenging thing for users.
By using the following technique user needs remember single masterpassword for logging in to different accounts. So what do you need..?
Step 1: Either a bookmark or just a bash script
Using Bookmark. http://www.hashapass.com/en/bookmarklet.html
Step 2: Just drag the bookmark to your bookmarks
Step 3: Now open your gmail account and goto password change settings
Step 4: Enter your current password
Step 5:Now just click the hashpass bookmark and enter Parameter and masterpassword
About Parameter : Right now i am using gmail. So based on my requirement i have assigned my parameter as
"gmail"
About Master Password : Its the single password string which you need to remember
After entering it in both fields just save it and get log-out.
Now just open your email account after providing the username click on the Hashapass bookmark
Now enter the parameter value and password. And click on login. That's it.
Video Tutorial
Whats the importance of it..?
Well we all know that every single user may have single or multiple accounts with same or different passwords. Remembering different passwords for different accounts could be a challenging thing for users.
By using the following technique user needs remember single masterpassword for logging in to different accounts. So what do you need..?
Step 1: Either a bookmark or just a bash script
Using Bookmark. http://www.hashapass.com/en/bookmarklet.html
Step 3: Now open your gmail account and goto password change settings
Step 4: Enter your current password
Step 5:Now just click the hashpass bookmark and enter Parameter and masterpassword
About Parameter : Right now i am using gmail. So based on my requirement i have assigned my parameter as
"gmail"
About Master Password : Its the single password string which you need to remember
After entering it in both fields just save it and get log-out.
Now just open your email account after providing the username click on the Hashapass bookmark
Now enter the parameter value and password. And click on login. That's it.
Video Tutorial
Is this better than the widely supported pwdhash.com algorithm?
ReplyDelete@David Getchell Working functionalist remains same. Hashapass also available in bash script which can run in various linux distributions.
DeleteHere is the link for the Bashscript
http://hashapass.com/en/cmd.html