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by scrooched_moose 1680 days ago
Sounds like we have similar roles. I've never gotten them on paper, but multiple times a month I get emails along the lines of "My account doesn't work. My password is Banana1. Please fix". Every time I reset every single password they have (at least 4 hours of work for them) and inform them not to share passwords. Still, I've had users do it multiple times.

I finally got all of our admin/root passwords into a password manager with sharing among job functions and our CTO as backup to ensure some level of continuity. After losing passwords to multiple production systems after someone leaving the company it was still a battle.

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Congrats on getting them to use a password manager, now everyone can see all of their password by typing in the master password they stuck to the side of the screen.

I'm only half-joking sadly, people just don't understand why password exist in the first place, so they comply maliciously.

I'm sure people do that, but the fact that they only have one password to remember, and (hopefully) don't have to rotate it would hopefully deter them