There is a balance on passwords. The password needs to be complicated enough to be secure yet not so complicated you constantly lock yourself out. On our Active Directory system you get three tries at your password then you get locked out. It is not uncommon to have to unlock accounts a few times a month. That’s not just where I work now, but at every job I’ve ever worked.
One of my biggest pet peaves is when users write down their passwords anywhere. If I ever see a password written down I immediately change that users account password. We can set the system to make users reset their passwords often and require them make them mostly different. The danger with doing that is that users will write down their passwords somewhere. You already know how I feel about that.
Hope you like the toon.
Great toon, but a typo in the first panel methinks! “Aked”.
There is no way there is a typo. I read and re-read it 20 times! Oh wait…… Yeah thanks for the heads up. I hate typos yet I can’t seem to stay away from them.
Thanks for catching it Rasmus.
I hate passwords. What I try to do is just make sure that I never say, do , or put any useful information on a computer. Luckily I can remember all my passwords even if sometimes I forget my name to log in with.
Barry, if you have so many troubles with typos, do you have troubles with typing your own passwords into the computer?
Geno, suprisingly no. My problem when writing is just brain buffer overflow.
Without coffee my brain issues are brain buffer underrun:)
The lack of password management skill is one of those things that drives me insane, too.
I love it when folks lock themselves out of Mac OS X admin accounts due to a forgotten password (Mac geek alert!). “Do you have a boot disc?” “No . . .” /faceplam
I refuse to use auto-login on any system on which I have an admin account, and I’m not so keen on login menus. Give me user / pass blanks any day.