Windows has a credential manager – maybe that could be used for some sites.
He could also look at federation for some non-work accounts (the “login using Facebook account” type things), and then setup one, good, password for Facebook. Cheers Ken From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2012 4:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Password policy question Introduce him to something like Lastpass... And also point to him all the news articles for breaches, including the latest one for LinkedIn (he's on it, right?). On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Stefan Jafs <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I told him the other day that I have about 15 - 20 different passwords that I remember on a daily bases, he did not think that was possible, I think it's very important not to have the same login and password for everything, actually a sales guy just had his Linkedin, Yahoo accounts compromised and also his Aeroplan miles stolen. So I'm working on the President to add a few more variations on his password, we'll see. Anyhow for the rest of the company, I'm starting to enforce complex passwords. Stefan On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:26 PM, John Cook <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Because no doubt he's the most careful employee when it comes to password security :-) John W. Cook Network Operations Manager Partnership for Strong Families From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 01:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: Password policy question Thanks Jonathan, just needed to confirm, the President does not want to change his password, so I'll leave his as never expire. Stefan On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: That's correct, Never expire takes precedence. On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Stefan Jafs <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Windows 2003 AD, if i turn on “Maximum password age� in GP but a user have "Password never expire" set in Active Directory Users and Computers I assume that it will not affect that user, am I correct it that assumption? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
