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[ororo.livejournal.com]

Just for giggles, one day I decided to keep track of the number of times I had to log into things at work. Besides five applications that time out after 15-20 minutes, there's also two network logins (one for each PC on my desk), the call tracking software, the intranet, the timekeeper program.

I start my day at 9:30.

By noon I stopped counting, I had reached 16.

and they want us to use our time more efficiently.

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[zercool.livejournal.com]

It's *secure*.

[ororo.livejournal.com]

"it's not a bug, it's a feature."

[agentz.livejournal.com]

Heh. I should try counting how many different things I have to log in to at work...

Network logon to get on to my PC.
Network logon for the Mac on my desk
Logon to our helldesk system (which times out after 10 minutes unless I remember to auto-refresh)
Logon to our email admin database
Internet (which logs off if no activity for 20 minutes)
Comms system logon
Time recording system
Logon to our internal-facing support/discussion forums
Our education side webmail system (both to my mailbox and to the admin console)
Logon to a box running MRTG
Logon to a box running our network monitoring test software
Logon to our live stats system
Seperate logons to each one of 12 web proxy server admin interfaces on a random (and infrequent) basis
Logon to our desktop remote control product
Logon to the LDAP server admin command line interface

Aargh, I think my head is going to explode. Most of those I use on a daily basis at random times of the day. There are a few more lurking around somewhere, but I think you probably just beat me with your 16 by noon!

[mrsvickie.livejournal.com]

we have about the same amount of user ids and passwords... And they want them all different...

Like one uppercase,one lower, a few numbers at least 8 characters... Now don't for get these. As they all expire at different times so you have many different passwords. And don't be writting these down. Pfft.

[bottleopener.livejournal.com]

keepass.sourgeforge.net

a simple solution :)

Bottle

That's a good start.

[jedisamui.livejournal.com]

When I worked at Earthlink I had 27 logins for various online tools, network access, etc. I kept a very UNSECURE excel spreadsheet to keep track of them all. Because the things changed so frequently that it would piss me off to try and remember them.