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Synchronizing Forced Password Changes?

Posted by Cliff on from the decentralized-password-maintenance dept.

aroobie asks: "I have several different types of servers running at my small office including Windows 2000 Advanced Server, VMS, IRIX, and Linux. My corporate parent wants to force passwords to change every 90 days, which is a good thing, but once a user changes his/her Windows password access to the other servers is denied until I make appropriate changes on the non-Windows servers. Sort of defeats the purpose of changing the password since each users has to give me their new password to make them match on on the servers. Has anyone found a way to synchronize passwords on different systems? Is there software available to do this?"

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  1. what a silly question? by Sam+Lowry · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Any computer geek could answer you with one word: ldap, why did yo want to ask on slashdot?

    1. Re:what a silly question? by k_stamour · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      "God is the only form of extraterrestrial life that we could ever possibly communicate with. SETI is a joke, people." Yup! And the world is Flat, as the Church says.....um until recently.........

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    2. Re:what a silly question? by ReidMaynard · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      "God is the only form of extraterrestrial life that we could ever possibly communicate with. SETI is a joke, people."

      SETI may be a joke, but calling God an extraterrestrial life form is even funnier.

      I don't think God falls under *any* definition of life form.

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  2. ummm... by quinto2000 · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Kerberos, among other options. You're describing a very common problem, for which dozens of solutions exist. It seems a waste of an Ask Slashdot question, IMHO.

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