djackson 22568 (7/18/2013)
Unmentioned in the article is an issue the industry needs to address, which is that a lot of vendors develop software that requires a specific password in order to function. Sometimes these are database accounts and passwords, sometimes they are internal application accounts, but I have seen vendors request network accounts that must have a particular name and password.
Thanks for the mention here, Dave. This is a huge problem, and one I worry about. I always try System and Manager on Oracle instances, just to see. Those defaults are bad, but the back doors or "support" logins are horrible.