From: John Brightwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We have a large number of systems each requiring a different password and I don't expect the sys admins to be able to remember them all (That's probably 100+ passwords when you take into account network equipment as well as unix and windows boxes - and that doesn't include all the desktop machines).
Faced with having to remember that many passwords and bearing in mind that some systems might not be used on a daily basis. I think it's expecting a bit much for the Admins to keep them all in their heads! There's a danger that they will write down the less used passwords or maybe they'll reuse passwords across multiple systems or they'll use easy to guess passwords (you can be certain there will be a disincentive to expire the passwords after x months)
I can't see this Board Member being very impressed with the constant interruption. This would possibly be more appropriate for a DR solution for password access. Although I'd perhaps avoid using a very senior manager or Board member. IMO you need someone senior enough to be trusted, yet accountable enough not to ignore the procedures around access to the passwords - perhaps HR or Legal...but that's another debate.
For what I require - ongoing access to passwords - it really needs to be a system solution
I suspect that you are talking from the perspective of a small company - in which case you may have relatively few systems.
I'm sure there must be products that do this - I was just hoping that someone listening in on this thread might have done it before.
Thanks Anyway
We use PasswordSafe from www.counterpane.com Basically it keeps an encrypted password list for you so that you really only need to remember two passwords, your windows login, and the safe password. It works very well for me as I have over 50 different passwords to remember. The other thing we've done to ease this burden somewhat is to switch to MTR-3006 passwords for low security stuff like website memberships. We have a small shop, so I'm not sure how well this would scale, but it seems like a good system.
Chris Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator JM Associates
"Encrypt everything, and ask questions later."
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