DBA Best Practices - A Blog Series: Episode 2 - Password Lists

re: DBA Best Practices - A Blog Series: Episode 2 - Password Lists

Dale — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 02:34:14 GMT

And if you don't need that level, you can also just use a SharePoint list and lock it down with appropriate permissions.

re: DBA Best Practices - A Blog Series: Episode 2 - Password Lists

Jason Horner — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:42:36 GMT

We store our passwordsafe files in a sharepoint library. I also keep a copy up on skydrive in a private folder....

Don't laugh 8)

re: DBA Best Practices - A Blog Series: Episode 2 - Password Lists

paranoid admin guy — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:44:13 GMT

I feel it's too risky to keep critical passwords on any sort of local disk, network share, or cloud service. (Think PCI compliance) I keep my list on an IronKey encrypted USB flash drive, which I carry with me everywhere I go. It's remotely erasable should it be lost. There's a printed copy of the passwords kept in a locked safe at the office, that the CEO can access in the event of my demise.

re: DBA Best Practices - A Blog Series: Episode 2 - Password Lists

Paul Smith — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:09:02 GMT

Keypass is our device of choice file is on a network share

3 copies of the encryption key

1 = oncall DBA (USB Key)

1 = IT Manager

1 = Firesafe

re: DBA Best Practices - A Blog Series: Episode 2 - Password Lists

HM — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:59:28 GMT

Password-protected Excel sheet and then compressed with Winzip encryption.

re: DBA Best Practices - A Blog Series: Episode 2 - Password Lists

SQL Server Monkey — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:35:16 GMT

I use a locally hosted installation of Secret Server (http://www.thycotic.com/products_secretserver_overview.html) for passwords, application license keys etc. Works well and easy enough to backup.