Okay, most of us know how important good passwords are as a first line to
keeping the system secure, but what happens when one has multiple systems
they maintain and each system has multiple passwords. Now the list of
passwords one has to remember rapidly gets out of hand. A few months back
when PC Magazine had their hack the website contest (the had NT, Linux and
Mac web servers up), they mentioned in closing that the amount of
passwords they had to maintain was completely unwieldly and they
eventually setup a laptop with all the passwords, knowing that if the
laptop walked away, the game was up.
Now presently, I keep all my passwords in a pgp encrypted file on one of
my boxes (backed up to tape and another box) and am curious what methods
people use to keep the password list from growing out of hand. Also
especially when you are admining/maintaining a network of co-located
machines. Do you use say a few passwords that are randomly distributed
between machines, a different password for each machine, or what.
TIA
Harondel J. Sibble
Sibble Computer Consulting
Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user.
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