Hi, Embarassingly late reply; I've been away. On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:48:45AM -0500, Jeremy Stinson wrote:
We are in the need for a better mechanism for sharing passwords between our engineers. Most of these passwords are for our client's systems where some of them are controlling the password schemes (aka requiring shared user accounts). [...] In other companies we have used a PGP keyring to secure a text file that contained all of these passwords and then put them onto a shared customer portal. The problem with this strategy is what happens if you are not on your computer where PGP is installed?
Encrypted text files are a nice way to go until you grow to the size when people need very different levels of access, and centrally storing a number of these files isn't good enough. http://devel.pluto.linux.it/projects/Gringotts/ is what we use. If an engineer is not at a desk where they have gringotts installed, use the -d flag to use a console/interactive version of the software instead of the usual GTK gubbins. -a