Systems Administration Documentation
As a systems administrator, I periodically review the tools I use in my job. I go back and evaluate if I’m using the best tools for the task and determine if there are new tools available, or new versions of existing tools that I already use, etc. Based on what I find, if there are new tools or new versions of existing tools, I evaluate the level of effort to implement the new thing versus the utility the new thing provides. In other words, if something new is out there,
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I recently came across an encrypted password NOT where it should be. The individuals involved probably didn’t realize what they had done, and it might be fixable by relocating and properly protecting the file containing this password (as long as the password has not been guessed, or the individuals involved change the password). However, the mindset will still remain.
Anyone that puts an important file with an encrypted password on more than a dozen computers, with permissions of the file being world-readable, doesn’t really understand the ramifications involved.
Since then, I have
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