Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Privileged password management

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The result was merge to Password management. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Privileged password management

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Not encyclopedic, no references; furthermore by definition all passwords are "privileged" due to access they grant. Moonradar (talk) 13:15, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:14, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:09, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:12, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have no comments about the overall notability of the article, but to comment on the OP a bit - although all passwords (presumably) grant some form of access and are thus privileged, 'privileged password' in this context is used to refer to the passwords to accounts that have privileges elevated over those afforded the normal user. I have previously heard the term used in off-wiki contexts. I can see why it would be confusing, but it isn't nonsensical or anything. Kgorman-ucb (talk) 04:23, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: There is indeed a difference between privileged passwords and user access passwords: The latter allows usage of a service, the former allows configuration of a service. This is found in many networking devices, but also on ordinary PCs, where an accound password and an administrator password exists. --Pgallert (talk) 07:20, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Don't delete Either merge with the totally unreferenced stub Password management, or keep if two different articles are really necessary. I changed the {{unreferenced}} into {{morefootnotes}} and renamed the "External Links" section to "References" because the White Papers listed do support many of the claims the article contains. --Pgallert (talk) 07:20, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:27, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge - with Password management; subject appears to have some coverage, and would work as a subtopic of that article.Dialectric (talk) 02:39, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.