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The functions performed by the person or processes responsible for security of passwords on a given system.

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You're an IT consultant. Should you discourage a client from telling you their password?

I'd suggest plan B to him, but not push it if he doesn't want to bother. You will have unsupervised physical access to the laptop - unless there's a disk encryption password you haven't mentioned, th …
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