North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Password Security and Distribution
Hi, Embarassingly late reply; I've been away. On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:48:45AM -0500, Jeremy Stinson wrote: > We are in the need for a better mechanism for sharing passwords between our > engineers. Most of these passwords are for our client's systems where some > of them are controlling the password schemes (aka requiring shared user > accounts). [...] > In other companies we have used a PGP keyring to secure a text file that > contained all of these passwords and then put them onto a shared customer > portal. The problem with this strategy is what happens if you are not > on your computer where PGP is installed? Encrypted text files are a nice way to go until you grow to the size when people need very different levels of access, and centrally storing a number of these files isn't good enough. http://devel.pluto.linux.it/projects/Gringotts/ is what we use. If an engineer is not at a desk where they have gringotts installed, use the -d flag to use a console/interactive version of the software instead of the usual GTK gubbins. -a
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