At 11:17 AM 7/16/98 -0400, Alan AMBERS wrote:
<snip>
>I would be fearfull that the one person (or two for that matter) would
>go out and deflect a truck or some similar disaster.
>
>We have gone to a model that in addition to the few people who have the
>passwords, there is a copy of the password locked in a known location by
>a few *other* people.  Keys can be had by our mainteance department of
>the keys are not available.
>
>But we have so many platforms, the password list now includes:
>
>HP3000
>HP9000
>Novell
>Windows NT Servers
>Routers
>
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That's something every shop should consider. What happens if
several key individuals in a shop (or all 5 in OUR department!)
hop in a minivan to go out to lunch, and get wiped out by a
tractor & trailor?

We leave a copy of our computer room door combination in a
sealed envelope in a safe in our cashier's office. Inside the
computer room there's a small "fire-proof" safe which contains
another sealed envelope with system(s) logonID's/passwords.
Of course these passwords and combinations are changed on a
regular (mostly) basis, which is getting rather time consuming.

And as Alan mentions, the list keeps growing!

Chris

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