![]() LastPass also offers an enterprise solution that lets the companies share credentials within and outside the organization without disclosing passwords. This particular feature is not very common with other password management softwares. Lastpass automates form filling and password generation, along with site-sharing, site logging and two-factor authentication through various methods. In case the master password is missing, LastPass allows a password hint, pre-set by the user, thereby making access simple and hassle-free. It stores passwords in encrypted form and lets you access them through various options like its browser extensions, mobile apps or simply via logging in to your Lastpass account by using just one master password. When logging into a site, the plug-in alerts you about using a stored login, and also displays an overlaid box on the page that says a page is loading, and then that it’s loaded and the login data has been submitted.Lastpass stores your passwords online and prepopulates them automatically when needed. The browser plug-ins are better designed and seem more mature, although they also have a very technical field and are rather chatty. Buttons in the Vault and other dialog boxes are odd-like they belong on another platform, but which one? I’m not sure. Choosing Undo after creating a new entry crashed the app. The Vault pseudo-app’s menus are almost empty, and there’s no way to customize the way in which entries are shown. The Vault window in the new Mac app is a stripped-down version of what’s available at the Web site, especially regarding preferences. The FormFill feature puts different categories of items in a single profile, so to define multiple credit cards, you have to create a profile for each, and there’s no duplicate option to avoid re-entering address and other personal data. The site login seems quite primitive compared to 1Password, only storing a username and password, where 1Password can capture all form elements and store previously used passwords, among other features. But you can’t generate passwords on their own in the Vault window, even though you can in the browser plug-ins. The Vault offers access to site logins, secure notes, and “form fills,” the company’s term for identities that can contain credit-card information, an address, and more. The Mac app is primarily the Vault window, a locally synchronized and updated version of the data stored in your LastPass web account. ![]() ![]() The new Mac app feels more like a better extension of the plug-ins than a fully freestanding app, but it gets the job done. ![]() (1Password syncs via Dropbox and iCloud Drive, but doesn’t allow access to its encrypted vaults without syncing to a local copy and using its software.) Having direct access with a login increases the “risk surface,” although you can mitigate that with a premium subscription by using one of several two-factor authentication methods it supports, including Yubikey (a USB key generator) and Google Authenticator, to prevent logins without possession of or access to a unique second verification code or device. This has the advantage that you can log into the LastPass website to access passwords anywhere, and the disadvantage that anyone with your credentials can log into the LastPass website to access your passwords anywhere. The central theme of LastPass is accessibility everywhere: your passwords are stored in a local vault on your Mac (or other platforms) and always synced with LastPass’s storehouse. LastPass is a popular solution for iOS, but this is its first official Mac app. ![]()
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