I provide them with KeePassX, but even that seems to complex for most of my users.
I guess what I'm looking for is a non-technical solution or idea of how to keep users from having to write the passwords on postits. On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:15 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris O'Connell wrote: > | I think we, as IT professionals, have to acknowledge that not all of our > | users are as savvy we are. Not everyone is going to be capable of > keeping > | their passwords straight. > > Hmmm ... A quick check shows that my personal password file has over > 200 distinct entries. Some of these I haven't used in over a year, > but the accounts are still there. One reason I haven't used them is > that lots of software now remembers them and fills in Password: > fields for me. But even if this weren't happening, I still couldn't > remember that many passwords, unless I made most of them the same. If > anyone claims that they can, I'd be very skeptical without a demo. > > So my level of savviness is probably irrelevant; I'd be surprised if > very many people of any kind can remember so many nonsense words. > > And, despite whatever strategies I may try to use, most of these > passwords do have at least some stuff that's difficult to remember. > This is due to the way that admins insist on password rules that are > designed for security, but which are different for every site. This > forces me to use passwords that don't follow any personal pattern, > meaning that I have little choice except to store them somewhere > that's easily available when I need them. > > The real problem isn't that users write down their passwords. The > real problem is that system admins force the users to write down > their passwords. > > (Hey, maybe I should use that as a sig for a while. ;-) > > > -- > The fewer jobs a tool is designed to do, the better it does each of them. > _' > O > <:#/> John Chambers > + <[email protected]> > /#\ <[email protected]> > | | > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Chris O'Connell http://outlookoutbox.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
