Oh, nifty!
-- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration Martin Jackson wrote: > I'm currently looking at ManageEngine Password Manager Pro > http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/passwordmanagerpro/index.html > The "PGP Text file shuffle" is killing me so I'm buying a copy. It's > free to try for up to 5 admins and 10 resources I believe. > > Cheers > > -Martin > > Dustin Puryear wrote: >> I think I brought this up last year.. hopefully there is better news >> on this front. So, we face the same issue as every other sysadmin >> shop: How do you store passwords? >> >> We are looking for an open source, shareware, or commercial product >> which has these features: >> >> 1. Provides a "password safe". >> 2. Provides strong encryption of the underlying database. >> 3. Allows for at least a basic password policy. >> 4. Is reasonably easy to use. >> (so far most free products can do all this, such as PasswordSafe). >> 5. Is multi-user in that more than one person can be in the database >> at once. >> 6. Is reasonably priced for us. That means either free or up to >> several hundred dollars. >> >> Notice I don't require that every user have their own unique password >> to get in. At this point, I'm okay with allowing a select few share a >> master password to get into the safe. Not a great solution, but it's >> better than the reality where everyone has their own password safe. >> >> What would be nice: >> >> 7. Each user has their own credentials. >> 8. We could possibly tie the credentials into a directory, e.g., LDAP >> or AD. >> 9. An Administrator has the ability to assign read/write rights to >> portions of the database. >> >> The solution can run on a Linux, UNIX, or Windows server. >> >> Thoughts? >> ___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.orgReceived on 02/04/08
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