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From: ecl@mtgzy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How do you manage multiple /etc/passwd files?
Message-ID: <2416@mtgzy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Feb-87 09:33:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 12 09:33:41 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Feb-87 20:37:18 EST
References: <2253@felix.UUCP> <286@desoto.UUCP>
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In article <286@desoto.UUCP>, shz@desoto.UUCP (S. Zirin) writes:
> Users should NOT use the same password on more than one computer for obvious 
> security reasons.  In addition, you should probably use password aging to 
> require your users to change their passwords periodically.

Well, I'll go along with password aging, but I (like many system
administrators) have logins on 20+ systems.  If I had to have 20+ logins,
I'd have to write them down and I consider *that* more of a security problem.
(I do have more than one, however.)  Since we age passwords every four weeks,
changing them is a pain--luckily we have a remote access capability on many of
our systems that helps.


					Evelyn C. Leeper
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