"What's the password again?"

v638sg7k1a92bx

Does anyone have these people in the office who never write down a password because they know it's easier to ask someone else or just call out "what's our password for this again?" When someone else is not available they're going around in a flap about how they can't get their work done. How many times does it take before the inconvenience and wasted time outweighs someones laziness.

We use different subscriptions that we all use e.g. we need the Irish Times, etc and other search databases for work. We have one office subscription that everyone uses.

Should you just tell them that you don't remember or will they continue to keep banging their head against a wall?

GreeBo

Does anyone have these people in the office who write down passwords?

SeaFields

Ye share passwords ?

Grayson

I've never worked anywhere like that.

Actually now I think of it, when someone gets a new phone they have to log onto the guest login on the WiFi. and sometimes people forget that.

But for actual work stuff, no. I've never seen anyone here forget their passwords. It's not something you see in any tech company. Especially since you can get password managers now.

theteal

I had to implement a password policy in my new job. I'm not a popular person. Fcuk 'em!

BrokenArrows

Aviana Massive Gauge wrote: »

Does anyone have these people in the office who never write down a password because they know it's easier to ask someone else or just call out "what's our password for this again?" When someone else is not available they're going around in a flap about how they can't get their work done. How many times does it take before the inconvenience and wasted time outweighs someones laziness.

Should you just tell them that you don't remember or will they continue to keep banging their head against a wall?

Everyone should have their own password. Massive issue to have one shared password.

Force Carrier

You think that's bad - I have to keep giving this indian guy who phones me up different passwords and numbers and I don't even know this guy.

v638sg7k1a92bx

SeaFields wrote: »

Ye share passwords ?

For different subscriptions that we all use e.g. we need the Irish Times, etc and other search databases for work. We have one office subscription that everyone uses.

Snotty

Never seen it and would probably get the boot if they were sharing passwords in my work

Hector Savage

Depends what it's for, if it's for the Irish Times like OP said, well fair enough, can hardly be abused.
Must be annoying tho.

theteal

theteal wrote: »

I had to implement a password policy in my new job.

theteal wrote: »

I'm not a popular person.

Are these mutually exclusive? :pac:

theteal

Deleted User wrote: »

Are these mutually exclusive? :pac:

I'd like to think there's definitely a link between the two, can never be sure though

TuringBot47

theteal wrote: »

I had to implement a password policy in my new job. I'm not a popular person. Fcuk 'em!

Ye should probably use something like LastPass enterprise, which lets employees share passwords.
https://www.lastpass.com/enterprise-password-management

With data breaches across a large number of companies and data protection laws that can fine companies punitive amounts for data breaches, a "password policy" should be more than just a rule to have a password of more than 8 letters and change it every 3 months.


For everyone else, ie. every Boards user, they can use LastPass free version.
Every single website you go to can have a random completely unguessable password, eg. "*9*OeW&Em%c2bNL%"
You only have to remember one master password, it's a browser plugin and will fill in each sites username and password as you visit it.

ChippingSodbury

TuringBot47 wrote: »

...
For everyone else, ie. every Boards user, they can use LastPass free version.
Every single website you go to can have a random completely unguessable password, eg. "*9*OeW&Em%c2bNL%"
.

So, how many people have tried *9*OeW&Em%c2bNL% as TuringBot47's password???

ectoraige

TuringBot47 wrote: »

Every single website you go to can have a random completely unguessable password, eg. "*9*OeW&Em%c2bNL%"

How the fcuk did you guess my password?

Stroke Politics

I was an administrator for a team of 12 one time in a call Centre a long time ago and we took on s new team member, Mary. Set up Mary with Password1 and told her to pick her own password when she logged in. Mary could not log in and we got to Password18 before I realised that Mary was inputting Passward as she could not spell password....

SeaFields

SeaFields wrote: »

Ye share passwords ?

Hardly unusual? We have always had some shared passwords in different jobs I’ve worked including my current one. Pieces of equipment that don’t have individual profiles, lab PCs that have a single log in so multiple people can use it while keeping a process running, software that we only have one license for but multiple people use at different times, subscriptions we one have one log in for etc etc.

freshpopcorn

In secondary school we got new computer rooms. Every got a user name which was your name and your password was your PPS. It use take ages to start a class.
The passwords were eventually just left at the top of the room for you to help yourself.

TuringBot47

ChippingSodbury wrote: »

So, how many people have tried *9*OeW&Em%c2bNL% as TuringBot47's password???

I ain't stooopid.

That's a randomly generated disposable password from LastPass.

TuringBot47

Many, many years ago when we were logging in with Novell Netware on DOS I wrote a little program to spoof the login program ( login.exe )

Was just a proof of concept, but ended up (accidentally) getting the network administrators password which was "Fosters" at the time...

It's mad how absolutely wide open with vulnerabilities the early internet was.

my3cents

Stroke Politics wrote: »

I was an administrator for a team of 12 one time in a call Centre a long time ago and we took on s new team member, Mary. Set up Mary with Password1 and told her to pick her own password when she logged in. Mary could not log in and we got to Password18 before I realised that Mary was inputting Passward as she could not spell password....

One better than that

As a joke a couple of the women in accounts swapped the N and M keys over on their bosses computer and he had those letters in his name and password. For a couple of weeks he thought he was going mad. Took about 4 support call outs before someone who wasn't a touch typist to notice what was going on.

Sonny noggs

What’s the frequency, Kenneth?

Hector Savage

interesting article on it ..
https://orbitalflower.github.io/tv/startrek/datas-password.html

I love the end ...

Conclusion: Data’s 52-digit code is secure.

If you picked a 52 digit password today, it will be very strong. However, the exact password 173467321476c32789777643t732v73117888732476789764376 is extremely weak, since it has appeared in a popular science fiction television series.

Badly Drunk Boy

Hector Savage wrote: »

Conclusion: Data’s 52-digit code is secure.

If you picked a 52 digit password today, it will be very strong. However, the exact password 173467321476c32789777643t732v73117888732476789764376 is extremely weak, since it has appeared in a popular science fiction television series.

I probably might have used that, but swapping around the 9th and 10th numbers. Hack that, Data!

Badly Drunk Boy

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I probably might have used that, but swapping around the 9th and 10th numbers. Hack that, Data!

Capitalising one of the letters should make it a lot more secure also.

Badly Drunk Boy

Deleted User wrote: »

Capitalising one of the letters should make it a lot more secure also.

...And an exclamation mark at the end to make it more dramatic! :pac:

Badly Drunk Boy

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

...And an exclamation mark at the end to make it more dramatic! :pac:

my3cents

Deleted User wrote: »

Capitalising one of the letters should make it a lot more secure also.

Tell some of the banks that. I have Lasting Power of Attorney for a family member in the UK and managed to get internet access to keep an eye on their account and I was told when setting it up in a Halifax branch in the UK that they don't distinguish between upper and lower case letters in the username or password. Probably saves on a good bit of password changes but obviously less secure.

biko

Make the password "iAmNotGivingYouThePasswordIdiot!"

biko

biko wrote: »

Make the password "iAmNotGivingYouThePasswordIdiot!"

'Hewhotypesthissucksballs'

Let them guess that :pac: