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msmemory_archive ([personal profile] msmemory_archive) wrote2009-04-08 02:29 pm

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If you're going to implement a strong, mandatory, inconvenient policy, it would sure be a good idea to issue a memo, or an all-staff email, or post it on the intranet.

Having to have our IS guy visit each person in the whole site to explain that their computer was locked while they were in the restroom or at lunch, and it will lock itself after 15 minutes of inactivity henceforth, just stinks, for us and for the hapless IS guy. (It also lends itself to people choosing the shortest, weakest passwords they can get away with, if they have to log in several times a day.)

[identity profile] n2mlq.livejournal.com 2009-04-10 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Or you wind up like me, with good strong passwords, and I keep the auto-lock set for five minutes, three was just a little too short.