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

[James P. Kinney III]

'Tis true. But bear in mind, the other admin who needed "access" was an
NT admin. I could (and did) back him up when he went out of town. When I
left Emory, they dumped Linux for NT in less than a month.

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 23:01, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> How Andromeda-Strainish.
> 
> :)
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 21:07, 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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Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./

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