Password Storage

["Doug W" <dougiegee () hotmail com>]

Hi Everyone

What do people generally do in the case of password storage?  For example, I 
strongly believe that storing passwords in documents is a terrible idea as I 
am sure you would agree.

However, how do you account for having multiple support staff, possibly 
working off site, most with extremely bad memories (unfortunately), and in 
need of high level rights to fix systems etc.

I also try to enforce that all actions are taken wtih the users own 
privileged account for auditing purposes but when building machines, 
installing software or troubleshooting problems, service accounts and 
administrations accounts may be required.

Or, is this problem more universal than I think and forcing people to not 
document passwords will be an interesting challenge?

D



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