On 12/22/11 07:12, Doug Chamberlin wrote:
Why limit it to so little? Make the limit 1KB or 2KB to encourage pass
phrases instead of passwords.
Full sentences that are meaningful to the person are WAY better
protection than complex passwords.
Currently (fb3) firebird does not artificially
02.01.2012 1:38, Steve Friedl wrote:
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 08:14:56PM -0400, W O wrote:
Right, but it take more time for type them and the probability of mistakes
grows.
Sure, but if long passwords are allowed, people have a choice as to their
own tradeoff of security -vs- convenience.
Why limit it to so little? Make the limit 1KB or 2KB to encourage pass
phrases instead of passwords.
Full sentences that are meaningful to the person are WAY better
protection than complex passwords.
On 12/21/11 4:19 PM, W O wrote:
Just 8 letters for a password seems to me very short.
It is
Right, but it take more time for type them and the probability of mistakes
grows.
Greetings.
Walter.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Doug Chamberlin chamberlin.d...@gmail.com
wrote:
Why limit it to so little? Make the limit 1KB or 2KB to encourage pass
phrases instead of passwords.
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 08:14:56PM -0400, W O wrote:
Right, but it take more time for type them and the probability of mistakes
grows.
Sure, but if long passwords are allowed, people have a choice as to their
own tradeoff of security -vs- convenience. If only short passwords are
allowed,
On 12/21/11 19:11, Paul Reeves wrote:
BTW, will the default be masterkey or masterke? That's different things
now.
Are you saying that if the default is set to masterke and the user types
masterkey that the login will fail? And the same with typing masterke when
the
password is
On 12/20/11 22:04, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
20.12.2011 18:22, Paul Reeves wrote:
o Add a checkbox that allows a user to keep SYSDBA/masterkey.
Default will be unchecked. If unchecked then next screen will ask
user to enter new password.
This gets my vote.
Just one idea. May be not
On 12/20/11 18:31, Paul Reeves wrote:
On Tuesday 20 December 2011 at 14:20 Alex Peshkoff wrote:
Next, for ZIP install people will have to run gsec
first time manually.
That is not desirable.
In fact when I wrote my previous reply I was just thinking about the UI of
the
installer.
On Wednesday 21 December 2011 at 12:29 Alex Peshkoff wrote:
Writing batch file is not a problem.
But I do not know why is it needed when all what you need is to
gsec -add sysdba -pw %new_password%
Don't forget we are talking about windows users here :-) (g,d r).
A lot of them will not
On 12/21/11 15:51, Paul Reeves wrote:
On Wednesday 21 December 2011 at 12:29 Alex Peshkoff wrote:
Writing batch file is not a problem.
But I do not know why is it needed when all what you need is to
gsec -add sysdba -pw %new_password%
Don't forget we are talking about windows users here
21.12.2011 12:59, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
And what about ZIP - may I ask, how does it work now? I've thought that
people at least need to register themselves windows service after
opening archive. Am I wrong?
For regular users - no, but developers used to use FB server in application
mode.
On 12/21/11 16:02, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
21.12.2011 12:59, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
And what about ZIP - may I ask, how does it work now? I've thought that
people at least need to register themselves windows service after
opening archive. Am I wrong?
For regular users - no, but developers
Alex Peshkoff [2011-12-21 13:07] :
Sorry - may be my question was not enough precise. Does our zip archive
contains something (batch file) that helps with further install after
unzipping files?
yes
On Wednesday 21 December 2011 at 12:26 Alex Peshkoff wrote:
Just one idea. May be not check box, but radio box with 3 choices
That is a possibility. I think the final decision will depend partly on the
architecture of innosetup and the logic of the order of the screens.
BTW, will the
Till today we always used to provide security database pre-configured
for use with single record for SYSDBA with masterke(y) password. In FB3
we have at least two reasons to stop use that schema:
- having masterkey as default preset-ted SYSDBA's password is security
vulnerability cause people are
On 20/12/2011 11:20, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
I wonder is it possible to change windows installer to initialize
security database. Next, for ZIP install people will have to run gsec
first time manually. Are this changes OK for us?
I don't think it is, specially for zip.
I think bind the server
On 12/20/11 17:26, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
On 20/12/2011 11:20, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
I wonder is it possible to change windows installer to initialize
security database. Next, for ZIP install people will have to run gsec
first time manually. Are this changes OK for us?
I don't
On 20/12/2011 11:41, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
On 12/20/11 17:26, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
On 20/12/2011 11:20, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
I wonder is it possible to change windows installer to initialize
security database. Next, for ZIP install people will have to run gsec
first time
On Tuesday 20 December 2011 at 14:20 Alex Peshkoff wrote:
I wonder is it possible to change windows installer to initialize
security database.
It is possible, but I'm not sure it is practical or desirable.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of deployments are for
development
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