Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] When I'm gone?
2009/2/4 Paul Tansom <paul@???>: > For those that have non-technical other halves, relatives or etc. who
> don't know other techies, what, if anything, have you in place for the
> contingency of not being there to support your systems? I'm not thinking
> so much a desktop system, but if you have a server handling mail,
> printing, file sharing, etc. that would likely be over kill or not
> wanted without yourself to support it, do you have details of what to do
> with it and/or an envelope with passwords put to one side?
>
I have pondered this myself and discussed with (techy) friends in the
past. Perhaps a centralised repository between a bunch of _good_
friends with your essential system data in a file which is GPG
encrypted. Give the other half the key when you die / in your will /
with your solicitor.
They can then contact the group, unlock the file and get the
information. An extra possibility would be (if you trust those
friends) that you could nominate one or more of those friends to
actually assist the non-techy bereaved with help getting access to the
data.
