[ale] [OT] Good Server Documentation - Best Practices

[Geoffrey]

Do you often look over your shoulder???

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Yeah, but if the only person with the root password gets hit by a bus...
> 
> At Emory, we had an envelope that was sealed that contained root and
> admin passwords. But the paper inside had "match the machine to the
> password" diagram. Machines on the left, big space, passwords on the
> right. Then there were hand drawn line to connect the two. The passwords
> were not in order as the machines. Then we tore the paper in half
> lengthwise. one half went in a separate envelope. The halves were stored
> in separate locations. 
> 
> I had a copy of the entire list encrypted with a large key on my palm
> pilot using gnu-keyring. So did the NT guy. We also had the password set
> on the palm pilots so it was locked after a short time. The only way to
> unlock it was to hard reset it, which wiped it. The database copy on the
> backups was stored encrypted on the PC. Gnu-keyring would only run on
> the pilot OS so it would have been very difficult to unlock it with out
> a palm. Which would be a terrible environment to brute force from :)
> Probably could have done it with the palm simulator for linux, though.
> But my password was nearly 30 characters of complete gibberish.
> 
> On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 18:47, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 18:38, Dow Hurst wrote:
>>
>>>I've got a bound notebook with the essential stuff in case I die so the 
>>>research project can be picked up by someone else.
>>>
>>>Essentials are *****root passwds*****...
>>
>>Oooooh, <shiver>
>>
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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
Think about it...

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