![]() HashiCorp solutions engineer Sean Carolan demonstrates some of the ways you can clean up and automate your password management with Vault. Using built-in tools that you already have installed on your servers (Bash or Powershell), you can automatically generate secure passwords for Linux or Windows servers and store them safely in Vault. Thankfully, Vault is a system that automates away most of the headaches associated with key and password rotation. Password management is a thorn in the side of many sysadmins. Credentials are often shared by multiple users, or the same username and password can be used to access multiple systems.Sometimes system passwords are stored in plain text on a wiki page or in a shared document.Users copy annoying, hard-to-remember passwords onto sticky notes.They are a pain to remember and complex rules and rotation requirements can actually make security worse.īad practices abound because password management is so cumbersome: For more in-depth tutorials and documentation for how to use HashiCorp Vault for password rotation, visit the Vault track on HashiCorp Learn.
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