The Internet saves the day
So there’s this application I administer at work, and it’s one I almost never use, because the particular one in question is the backup for a service that’s very little-used in the first place.
However, it requires some annual maintenance, and I’ll be damned if I could remember the administrator password. Naturally I don’t write these things down, because that’s a big faux pas in the password world (almost as big a faux pas as writing about it one’s blog, you might say). All I could remember is that it was related to a particular musician I like, so I googled for that person’s discography. Once I saw the search results, it triggered my memory and I was able to log in.
Good old Internet. Without it, I would be unable to use other aspects of the Internet.
I’ve been thinking about creating a password-protected text file containing all my passwords on a thumb drive and keeping it with me at all times. What’re the odds that drive will fail before my memory does?
Writing admin passwords down is not bad form at all! Write those suckers down, put them in a locked filing cabinet, and tell your backup person where they are. Didn’t you know that Busses are the natural enamies of SysAdmins? How would your replacement do maintenence if one of those nasty busses got you!?!?!
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11818
I have 100+ entries and growing. I have forgotten too many passwords so I have been using Pastor as my external brainlet for several years now.