Re: 3 years to install a "central patch management" system?
" Those local admin rights sound like trouble, but "Windows has an option to store encrypted passwords" WTF? You have to ask it to? "
I don't know what that's all about. Windows (NT flavour, obviously, since DOS doesn't count) has always stored passwords just as securely as any other mainstream OS. Best practice in this area was established about half a century ago and isn't actually difficult.
Of course, there's nothing stopping some clueless twat of a programmer from storing a password in plaintext in an INI file on a network share open to the universe, but you could do that on any OS.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
