passwords, the wave of the future.

[perth]

when logging in for work in the morning, i need no less than 8 different passwords to be able to do my job. this does not include optional logins, which take the total to 11. 3 questions:

1. is this excessive? or par for the course? im leaning towards excessiver.

2. anyone have me beat? i would love to know im not the only one who has to memorize 8 different mixed-case alphanumeric passwords, all of which have differnet expiration times, just to do my job.

3. for years they have promised that one day we will have 1 universal login, but i have never seen any progress towards that goal. in fact, its gotten worse. when i started, it was 2 passwords. will it simply continue this way until people are responsible for so many passwords that they _have_ to come up with something, just to keep people productive.

side note: i really hate passwords set to expire every 30 days. especially the ones that dont allow you to use any of your previous six passwords.

~james