How do you manage multiple /etc/passwd files?
ecl at mtgzy.UUCP
ecl at mtgzy.UUCP
Fri Feb 13 00:33:41 AEST 1987
In article <286 at desoto.UUCP>, shz at 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
(201) 957-2070
UUCP: ihnp4!mtgzy!ecl
ARPA: mtgzy!ecl at rutgers.rutgers.edu
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