How many user names and passwords do you have? If you’re like me, you have a lot of them. Actually I don’t have too many user names, sticking with “Steve Jones”, “sjones” or my well known “way0utwest” for my logins. However I do try to have as many passwords as I have logins. Using my Password Safe utility, I count 265 items in my personal safe and 176 in my business one. Some of those are old and dead, but quite a few of them I use on a regular basis.That’s similar to what Keith Combs notes in his blog post on IDs and passwords. He has 172, though I’m sure that number has crept up since he wrote the post. The piece links over to a few identity discussions from others at Microsoft that are trying to make identifying users and managing security easier. In the Microsoft world I think that works well, but the larger world outside of Microsoft software requires a bit more work for most of us.