{"id":3110,"date":"2011-07-28T13:34:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T23:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2011-07-28T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T23:37:37","slug":"password-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/password-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Password nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a &#8220;webmaster&#8221; for a growing number of website clients is frustrating. Besides having a ridiculous title that feels like I should be growing a beard and rolling 20-sided dice, it&#8217;s getting downright crazy just accounting for all the setup and password information I have to keep for each person.<\/p>\n<p>Just 1 client I keep can have a handful of passwords:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 password for the domain registrar<\/li>\n<li>1 password for the domain host<\/li>\n<li>1 password for the \u00a0website host admin<\/li>\n<li>1 password for the FTP account<\/li>\n<li>1 password for any databases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And this would be on a good account. This doesn&#8217;t even address the more complicated situation where a client might have colocated servers or subdomains to maintain as well. It&#8217;s gotten to be quite insane and requires a whole lot of record keeping on my end to keep them all in-record somewhere. And that doesn&#8217;t even count the growing liability I have just making sure I don&#8217;t get any of my client accounts compromised.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately many of my clients themselves don&#8217;t keep records of these things themselves. They&#8217;d ask ME to get their passwords that they themselves created and gave to me in the first place! \u00a0WTF!!? \u00a0And some folks wonder why I charge what I do?<\/p>\n<p>It certainly makes the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5825120\/facial-recognition-its-not-creepy-so-get-over-it\" target=\"_blank\">argument for facial recognition technology<\/a> more attractive to me. Password management is something I&#8217;d ditch immediately if there was a more effective solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a &#8220;webmaster&#8221; for a growing number of website clients is frustrating. Besides having a ridiculous title that feels like I should be growing a beard and rolling 20-sided dice, it&#8217;s getting downright crazy just accounting for all the setup and password information I have to keep for each person. Just 1 client I keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-rants","category-webdesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}