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Linux Journal: P-Synch: Changing the Way We Change Passwords

Product Review by Tim Parker.

From the Linux Journal
product review:

“One of the annoyances of administering networks is the need to
change passwords regularly. We change passwords often for security
reasons and that’s fine. What bothers me is the need to log in to
each machine individually and run the password changing programs on
each one, then log into each individual application that has its
own user and password lists independent of the host machine and
change the passwords there….”

“Obviously, this is a problem that has plagued users for years.
The folks at M-Tech (Calgary, Alberta) have done something about
it… I first encountered P-Synch two years ago in an earlier
version and have used it religiously on my own networks,
recommended it to many clients and written about it extensively
since…”

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