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.
- 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!
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It sounds like an amazing feature! I can’t wait to try it. I’ll be back with feedback soon.
Great!
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?
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
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)
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
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I don’t want to send the full debug output here, so will leave it for now!
@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.
It was a DNS problem, now been solved.
http://blog.passpack.com/2009/06/email-hiccups-solved/
sounds like an amazing features!!! :) This is great! I want to try it! can’t wait!…
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?
@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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