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should admins know their user's passwords, because they can log into as the user and the user would be held accountable for what is done, and not the admin.

2006-08-17 09:20:37 · 6 answers · asked by Chris W 1 in Computers & Internet Security

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Absolutely not.

Admins have their own passwords and they should never know yours.

When you ask an admin to reset your password because you've gone and forgotten it, the admin will either have automated software to create you a random password, OR, they will reset it to something like "password" and the first time you log in it will force you to change it yourself.

In either case, the admin does not know your new password.

Any system where your password is recorded in plain text or by other people is a badly-designed system which fails to comply with the most basic principles of security.

2006-08-17 16:59:18 · answer #1 · answered by Arthur Brain 4 · 0 0

Admins don't NEED to know users' passwords. They can check their history etc on their admin account. They can also change users' passwords without knowing what they were.

2006-08-17 12:52:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

admins dont need to know the other user account's passwords that is spying the admins user acount can reset all passwords on all user acounts if the forgot there password so by saying should admins know there user account password's is just spying are you one of them people who go about spying

2006-08-17 09:29:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I don't think admins should know other's user passwords. Strictly for security issues.'

2006-08-17 09:26:32 · answer #4 · answered by Bluealt 7 · 0 0

admins HAVE the passwords for users. that's there job. Usually, since they are admin, will login as the admin and not you. this way they can see who did what to the computer. if it's somethnig shady then there's not much you can do about it except prove you weren't there when this or that went down.

2006-08-17 09:26:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

It depends what the service is for. You should have some way of getting into the user account, some backdoor, or just by knowing the name, in case something happends (data loose, criminal acts etc.) It also depends what clients you have

2006-08-17 09:27:13 · answer #6 · answered by cyngus65 3 · 0 0

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