At 11:23 AM -0700 4/30/02, Anne Carasik wrote: > > (who would LOVE to move to a _MORE_ secure solution, but is content, >> for now, to only allow himself and one other to even have accounts on >> the box with the cleartext passwds) > >Ugh.. I'd never be content with cleartext passwords, especially given >how many security solutions are around today.
Falls in the category of "show me another solution that's already on every user's system, and I'll happily drink of that fountain instead". I agree with you 100%, but in the environment I'm dealing with, folks are reticent to go add additional software to their expenses, and (for windows users, which like it or not is still 90+% of the userbase) almost any non-M$ solution incurs a cost. :( I'm not "content" with cleartext passwords, per se, but "making do" with such, and strictly limiting access to the box which has them visible, so maybe my choice of words was a bit wrong, but I didn't really want to have launch into the "windows users are idiots who won't get REAL secure stuff, so I have to make do with what little security I can coax out of them" diatribe. ;-) D -- +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Thou art the ruins of the noblest man | | Derek J. Balling | That ever lived in the tide of times. | | | Woe to the hand that shed this costly | | | blood" - Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 1 | +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
