System Administration Guide: Security Services

Password-Mapping Feature

The stacking feature can require that a user remember several passwords. With the password-mapping feature, the primary password is used to decrypt the other passwords so that the user doesn't need to remember or enter multiple passwords. The other option is to synchronize the passwords across each authentication mechanism. Note that this strategy could increase the security risk, because the security of each mechanism is limited by the least secure password method that is used in the stack.