[POLL] Same Username/password on multiple machines?

[Praetor]

Out of curiousity, for those of you with multiple computers at home, do you keep your username & passwords consistent throughout each computer? And how often do you change them?

I've got three computers in my network at all times, admin passwords are different on each machine, but my user account is the same on each as is the password. Password gets changed on the first of the month, every month.

 

[Nothinman]

I use the same accounts and passwords all around, infact I'm thinking of setting up kerberos soon so that I only have 1 set of accounts to manage.

 

[rmrf]

same/same

 

[kamper]

I wouldn't survive using different passwords anywhere. Once or twice I've tried different passwords on systems that I don't use too often and I always forget them. Changing on regular basis would be a disaster 😛

 

[djdrastic]

My AD Domain , obviously uses the same logons

My unix machines use the same logons but not the same passwords .I've been promising myself I'd hook them up to the AD Domain for more than a year now

 

[skyking]

I use the same/same, and use share level security on the samba server. I can always get to my stuff that way.

 

[Woodie]

Run a domain, so each user obviously uses the same password to all the workstations.

 

[spyordie007]

If you're running AD you (obviously) use the same username and password to log in to any of the machines. I have password changes forced via. group policy every 90 days.

If you're running a P2P network I've found it a lot easier to do file and print sharing if you use the same account/password combinations on each of the machines. Though dont run any p2p networks (even @ home I have AD). A major disadvantage to this is that it makes changing passwords a serious PITA.

 

[MiniDoom]

I use AD and change passwords every 6 months.

 

[ITJunkie]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I use the same accounts and passwords all around, infact I'm thinking of setting up kerberos soon so that I only have 1 set of accounts to manage.

looking into this myself

 

[n0cmonkey]

On some systems I have the same username/passwords, on others I have different usernames/passwords. 😕

kerberos has been on my todo list for a while now...

 

[Nothinman]

kerberos has been on my todo list for a while now...

I've only been considering it lately because I saw a magazine article on it and it seemed simple. That and getting everything to use it by altering PAM should be simple too.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

kerberos has been on my todo list for a while now...

I've only been considering it lately because I saw a magazine article on it and it seemed simple. That and getting everything to use it by altering PAM should be simple too.

I've been reading up on it off and on for a few (3-4 maybe) months now. It's built into OpenBSD's bsdauth and stuff, so setting it up is as simple as configuring it and turning it on. Although, I haven't looked into the Mac OS X or Windows machines yet. I'll have a proper network to play with it soon though.

 

[D1gger]

I have different ID's and passwords on every computer I use and it is getting to be a pain to remember. We have 8 systems at home and I use 2 systems at work, so it is a total of 10 ids and passwords.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: rmrf
same/same

 

[Praetor]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Nothinman

kerberos has been on my todo list for a while now...

I've only been considering it lately because I saw a magazine article on it and it seemed simple. That and getting everything to use it by altering PAM should be simple too.

I've been reading up on it off and on for a few (3-4 maybe) months now. It's built into OpenBSD's bsdauth and stuff, so setting it up is as simple as configuring it and turning it on. Although, I haven't looked into the Mac OS X or Windows machines yet. I'll have a proper network to play with it soon though.

Since I saw you mention kerberos, I started looking into that. Kinda wonder how well it would mix with my environment, although learning AD would be a better fit for my career path.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Praetor

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Nothinman

kerberos has been on my todo list for a while now...

I've only been considering it lately because I saw a magazine article on it and it seemed simple. That and getting everything to use it by altering PAM should be simple too.

I've been reading up on it off and on for a few (3-4 maybe) months now. It's built into OpenBSD's bsdauth and stuff, so setting it up is as simple as configuring it and turning it on. Although, I haven't looked into the Mac OS X or Windows machines yet. I'll have a proper network to play with it soon though.

Since I saw you mention kerberos, I started looking into that. Kinda wonder how well it would mix with my environment, although learning AD would be a better fit for my career path.

AD is just a modified kerberos and ldap. 😉

 

[Nothinman]

Since I saw you mention kerberos, I started looking into that. Kinda wonder how well it would mix with my environment, although learning AD would be a better fit for my career path.

If your career path also includes integrating unix with Windows systems then AD along with LDAP and Kerberos are good topics to learn about.