user gone and expiring access

Tobias Girstmair t-passwd at girst.at
Fri Feb 22 00:05:05 CET 2019


On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 11:55:22AM +1300, Steve Gilberd wrote:
>Lars - nothing prevents the user from using the Yubikey to create a
>decrypted copy, 

hardware tokens generally don't allow you to extract the private key 
again.

>or re-encrypting to an additional key controlled by the
>user. 

agree. (or just keeping the plaintext around)

>While a hardware token is a good idea, confiscating it doesn't
>provide a secure solution to denying an untrustworthy user access to the
>password store. The only safe option is to change the passwords.

indeed. the OP might be interested in 
https://github.com/ddevault/pass-rotate , a tool to help change 
passwords on multiple online services automatically.


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