I work in IT and I have to manage at least 40 passwords each on a different change schedule . So many passwords that I have to manage the in a password protected spreadsheet.
I would say that at least 20% of my day is putting in a damned system password. I would get no work done if I had to wait for a second person to sign in for everything I did.
All of the scheduled reports run under my userID. When my Oracle password expires, I discover it because all the reports stop working. There is no warning. I finally found “select * from USER_USERS;” which gives the expiration date
“I would get no work done if I had to wait for a second person to sign in for everything I did.”
There’s a serious problem with bad guys gaining access to passwords so we need some sort of solution, or are we going to leave our giant systems vulnerable to hackers?
Obviously there’s not an easy solution that won’t be inconvenient or crippling to the way things are now done.