On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:34 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > > What, you're forgetting, was it LA or SF, that just had that happen very > publicly, when that admin left and didn't want to tell the admins the > passwords, a couple of years ago? > > No. A manager should *always* have the written passwords, somewhere, if > you quit, or get hit by a car coming back from lunch.... > I used to think that, but a password is almost always recoverable, on more or less any Linux system. It may be inconvenient and time consuming, even expensive for one reason or another, but a password is almost always recoverable or resettable so I've stopped worrying about making my passwords 100% safe from destruction or loss. However they should be as close to 100% secure from being stolen as possible. Cheers, Cliff