"Brian" <user@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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Lisa C wrote:
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GAK! Just spewed the coffee there, sorry. Um, may I ask, if only the user knows the password, what happens when they forget? Or, perhaps, they are ill, get in an accident, are fired, leave the company, etc. Heh, would there even have BEEN court cases, if all the information was on the workstation and no one could get in?
The administrator can always change the password, no matter what. All of our information is stored on the server; however even if the user has stored information on the workstation, the administrator can always access it. Do you not understand that the administrator has unlimited access to servers and workstations?
Well, then, I am unsure of just how your outside consultant thinks having
the user be the only one that knows the pw will help in court.
well, for one thing, one of your two choices of passwords matches mine.
Pretty easy to break that code, no?
of course, over kill leads to the unintended consequences you mention.
"Allan Martin" <Allan@BadBoy.com> wrote in message
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I have a long running disagreement with the outside network administratorat one of my client sites. This inexperienced young man insists on using along complex password for the administrator like fjfj73273kksks92LMN928BTD4. I told him there was no need for such a complex password and thenature of the information he thinks he is securing does not warrant it. I had to go onsite today and discovered that my network friend carried over this policy to each user's login. Now instead of passwords like fluffy and bananas each user has a complex password like the one above. Guess what half the users have written on a posit dangling from their monitors. Explain this to me, please.
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