[TriLUG] Securely and Accurately transmit passwords

William Sutton william at trilug.org
Mon Oct 1 14:21:10 EDT 2007


I have to ask this....can you not provide them with some sort of key 
authentication mechanism?

William Sutton


On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Chris Knowles wrote:

> Seeking advice, anecdotes, ideas...
>
> Here's my situation.  I have a pool of 20+ people that are off-site.
>
> I occasionally have need of communicating to them system password
> changes.
>
> In the past, we've sent them cards with the passwords printed on them,
> with admonishments to destroy cards after the item has been committed to
> memory.
>
> Recently we've started seeing that they've taken these cards, taped them
> into their laptops in plain sight.  (And occasionally annotated them
> with much too much information as to what that password would buy you.)
>
> Since the passwords are complex, phone conversations tend to lead to a
> lot of phonetic spelling and shouting.
>
> Since the some of users have POP accounts for their e-mail I don't want
> to use e-mail as a secure method of sending them passwords..
>
> So, what do *you* use for password distribution?
>
> CJK
>



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