Effective Password Management with Keepass
Utilities to manage and track your infrastructure passwords should be in the toolbox of every system administrator. If your environment is utilizing best practices, you most likely will have a good password policy. This means passwords will change, and should have a level of complexity that will become hard to track for day to day use.
This is where open source tool Keepass comes in. I’ve use other password management tools in the past, but for the awesome price of free, you can’t beat it. Plus, supporting opensource when possible is always a good thing, right?
Sure, you could keep all of those super-sensitive passwords in a spreadsheet – lock it in a private network share, or on a Sharepoint site, but what happens when this data is compromised? Someone would then have the crown jewels of your infastructure, keys to the kingdom – and you’d be screwed. So what’s my point? Well, keypass allows for secure encryption of passwords, locked in the utility and managed by a secure password to view any items inside.
