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by mseebach 4642 days ago
True, but there still shouldn't be a shared password. Personal accounts for everyone.

For the few truly top-level master accounts around, a printed password in the safe will do fine. It should be painful and feel dangerous to use those, because it is.

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This isn't possible for every service. For example, our company Twitter account. Twitter doesn't allow any way for individuals to have their own passwords and post to the account. We have a social media team, all of whom need to be able to post to the Twitter account. There is no way around sharing a password for that (and it's just one example of many). It's great to be idealistic and say don't share passwords, but in the real world, it's not always possible.
A 30 second Google turns up at least two third-party services that lets you delegate access to your Twitter account without sharing the password.