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Should an admin user be able to edit passwords?

For your typical web app, should an admin superuser have the right to edit a user's password, or should only that user have the right? (Even with edit ability, the admin would never see the current ...
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Benefits and drawbacks of giving an Administrator two accounts for elevated rights and another for daily use, such as email

Microsoft has long promoted the need to separate administrative accounts from regular use accounts, as shown with this guidance MSFT even went to far as create ADMINSDUser rights to put ...
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Is it OK to tell or give your password to an admin?

I'm working in a small company (20 employees) as a senior software engineer. After some email problems, our newly employed IT administrator asked me for the password to our hosting company to see why ...
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Is it OK to tell your password to an admin? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: From a security point : Is it OK to tell your password to an admin? I am working in a small company (20 employees) as a senior SW engineer. After having some email ...