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Securely Send Passwords to Anyone

You can now select a group of password entries and send them to any email address. Perfect for sending passwords to folks that don’t have a Passpack account.

Send passwords to any email

  • Set up staff members with pre-polulated accounts
  • Easily get clients up and running with Passpack
  • Send a list of printable passwords to your Aunt Millie (why not?)

As always, everything in Passpack is encrypted. Passpack will send an email with a link to a page where they can insert the PIN and retrieve the passwords you’ve sent.

Once there they can either login or sign up for Passpack and the passwords will automatically be pre-populated for them. There’s also an export to CSV for people who use a different password manager, or even a printable list for the um… “technologically challenged”.

How To

Go into bulk editing mode in your Passwords tab, check off the entries you’d like to send, then choose Encrypt and send by email from the Apply an action menu.

Remember this is sending, not sharing. Bulk sharing will be added in the future along with bulk tag, favorite and security level editing (as per your requests [smile]).

More About the PIN

You’ll want to tell the person the PIN number in a separate communication. Best by phone or SMS. But no matter what – don’t include the PIN in the message itself.

Like an ATM PIN number, if you get it wrong three times in a row, you don’t get in (in fact, Passpack will destroy all traces of the sent  password copies should that happen).

Enjoy!

10 Comments

  1. Posted Jun. 5, 2009 at 2:48 pm | Permalink

    It sounds like an amazing feature! I can’t wait to try it. I’ll be back with feedback soon.
    Great!

  2. Rossoreed
    Posted Jun. 5, 2009 at 5:02 pm | Permalink

    I’ve sent two this evening to different email addresses, but neither message has been received.
    Is there a delay in sending the messages, or am I doing something wrong?

  3. Posted Jun. 6, 2009 at 8:07 am | Permalink

    That’s excellent news!! That’s a real killer feature – will also result in a lot more Passpack users out there, which is a good thing..
    Tom

  4. Posted Jun. 6, 2009 at 8:08 am | Permalink

    Btw – your blog comment form dies on posting and is giving loads of PHP errors (though after refreshing, it seems it’s posted the comment anyway)

  5. Posted Jun. 6, 2009 at 8:15 am | Permalink

    Ah, you guys have got gremlins today! I’m trying send you the full bug report using your contact and feedback form. After pressing the submit button on that, I get the following one-line error on a blank screen:

    Could not open socket


    I don’t want to send the full debug output here, so will leave it for now!

  6. Tara
    Posted Jun. 6, 2009 at 8:46 am | Permalink

    @Tom, @Rossoreed
    We’re working on it. There’s something clogging the service server (blog, help, mail senders). The application should otherwise be working fine. Thanks for the heads up.

  7. Francesco
    Posted Jun. 6, 2009 at 10:14 am | Permalink

    It was a DNS problem, now been solved.
    http://blog.passpack.com/2009/06/email-hiccups-solved/

  8. Joel
    Posted Jun. 9, 2009 at 11:47 am | Permalink

    sounds like an amazing features!!! :) This is great! I want to try it! can’t wait!…

  9. Mainer82
    Posted Aug. 19, 2009 at 8:06 pm | Permalink

    If I use this method and the recipient creates a Passpack account, the passwords are imported into their account- what if either one of us makes a change, are both of our accounts updated?

  10. Posted Aug. 21, 2009 at 1:56 pm | Permalink

    @Mainer82,
    No these are duplicate copies that are being sent. If you would like for changes to be synced between the two of you, you would need to share entries, not send them.

    Here’s how to share with someone:
    http://help.passpack.com/knowledgebase/idx.php/0/184/

    As of now, a user has to already be a Passpack account holder for you to share with them.

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