Fwd: Password alternatives

[Kurt Buff <kurt.buff () gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18, WALI <hkhasgiwale () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> The recent attempt to roll out password complexity within our AD domain has
> not been well recieved by higher / executive management. These guys have a
> habit of sharing their passwords with their PAs and secretaries and now they
> are cribbing when they need to change their password every 90 days.
>
> What are best and most workable alternatives? Biometrics, RSA tokens? Any
> thing else which you guys have implemented with relative ease?
>
> Pls advise!

What resources are the PA and secretaries being allowed to see/use?

If it's standard stuff, such as files/directories, and perhaps
Exchange/Outlook email and calendars, setting up groups for the former
and delegation for the latter will solve this problem.

Also, I'd offer a compromise - longer passwords (passphrases, really,
and the education to know that a complete sentence that's easy to type
is acceptable), with the requirement to change only once per year. I'd
think that a 18+ character sentence (My dog's name is Rin Tin Tin.)
with spaces and punctuation is easier to remember and type than
*$sdADx333.

Kurt

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