Inside "threat"

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Since our former boss left yesterday, as SOP, the administrator password was changed. Today, we've been repeatedly locked out of that account. Turns out the boss had given the password to some of his buddies and they've been trying to logon all day using the old password.

I casually mentioned that the password had been changed to someone at another office when I was installing a new network printer and the guy had the b@11$ to ask me what it was! Another lesson in life, folks.

 

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It's hard to believe anybody could be so stupid.

 

No it aint. When I first started my current job one of the IT teachers used the administrator account as thier daily account. Not for long though

5 minutes later "I cant login" cries came down the telephone from said teacher.

I've had to change it 3 more times since then as somehow (well the chocolate teapot) they keep finding it out. :roll: :snipersm:

SimonV

 

ever thought that they could be using a keylogger!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thats is a BIG FAT NO. We have what is called a chocolate teapot that works here. They seem to think that its OK to give out the admin password to anyone that asks.

 

Trip
I have a number of stock passwords

p1ss0ff
b0g0ff
etc etc

that you may find useful ...

when you give them out spell them using the phonetic alphabet

 

lol@sandy Good one. Thanks.

 

Our Marketing department used to have a white-board with all their passwords written on it. When one of them changed their password they wiped off the old one and wrote on the new one. They said it was so they could check each other's Email!

They don't do it now (I threatened them with their terms of employment) and I've taught them how to use delegates in Outlook!

 

Much tidier than all those postit notes everywhere.

One of our guys left his PC logged in when he wandered off, the boss saw this and emailed a resignation letter to himself from that PC and CC'd the rest of us in. Proved his point

 

We figured that somewhere over 10 people had the admin's old password and they were continually locking us out of the account. Yesterday, we finally changed the name of the admin account and cured the problem. Now we can get back into servers and do our jobs.

The other mind boggling side of all this is that we have a record of almost everyone's password in the city. It's kept in an excel file. It is password protected but I can find out anyone's password when I need to work on their computer. It's easier to load a piece of software under the admin acct then logon as them to make sure they can access it. Totally against the "rules", though.

We've been told to change nothing until the new (temp) honcho comes on board next tuesday but after that, we're hoping to manage passwords like most places to...just set up new accts with temp passwords with the stipulation that the user has to change it the first time they logon. We'll see how they handle it.