Then - boom - like a bolt out of blue I'll get a request for either some work on an old web site - or a client who's forgotten how to login to SagePay.
So what I would normally do is trawl through all of my old emails where they might have sent me a copy of their login credentials (and I might have had enough forethought to mark with a reg flag in my inbox so I knew it was actully something important) - but all in all it would take minutes of my precious time, and distract me from the matter in hand.
Imagin my horror when one of the agencies I work for asked for a spreadsheet of all the FTP logins, Zen Cart logine & hosting logins for their set of clients! Aaargh!! To collate that would take days.... I complained!
But do you know what? It didn't actually take that long at all. I sent them back an Excel spreadsheet, with each clients details on a separate tab, and each sheet contains every password, username & url link one could possibly need to manage their online sites.
So now I have done the same for ALL my current clients - everytime a new client signs up - he/she immediately gets a new tab and I can just copy and paste the relevant detail into their tab.
OK it doesn'lt always look pretty - but its always to hand - evidenced by the fact that its almost always open on my machine.
I have taken the basic security precaution of password protecting the spreasheet in case it fell into unwanted hands - but I think I can manage to remeber one password.
It would be interesting to know any other developers tips for managing this issue
1 comments:
We (moresoda) do something similar. All of our passwords are contained in a spreadsheet but it is contained in a password protected Mac disk image because this provides much stronger encryption. Give it a try, it's still only one password.
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