> ... it'd be nice if there was some way for a factotum > protocol to generate a key that stayed in long term storage (i.e. in secstore) > but currently, i don't think there's a way to do it, other > than manually.
I was needing this recently - I have to change my windows filserver password every couple of months. It would be nice if I could automate this process having a program generate me a random password, passit to the server, and register it into secstore. alternatively I suspose I should just try and convince the IT dep to stop my password from expiring. Even more off topic - why do people think regular password expiry improves system security (as opposed to enforcing a password complexity constraint)? I know we have many passwords of the form <dictionary word><integer> where the integer increments every few months... -Steve
