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Gary Wheeler20-Dec-18 5:58
Gary Wheeler20-Dec-18 5:58 
Sounds familiar. On the first business day of every month, I change my password. It's a good idea to be proactive, because if you let it expire (45 days), you can be locked out of your account and will need to get someone else to unlock it for you. When I change my password, I also have to change it for the scheduled tasks and services(*) on our three build servers. The process takes about 10 minutes, and I re-enter the new password 6-8 times on each machine.

Back when we used Bloatus Goatse the process was even longer, and you had to re-enter the old password a couple of times before you could change it.

(*) Supposedly we have "robot" accounts whose passwords never expire. I tried getting one, but there was no way to set the password for it. It granted employee-level access if it was used.
Software Zen: delete this;

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