On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> > Forcing an operator to type in his/her password over and over is as annoying > as it is wrong-headed. Passwords are intended to stay secure and every > password prompt is a potential, but usually necessary, exposure. You should > never be prompted to type your password more often than necessary.
Indeed -- well put. When my daughter was about 8, we were at Best Buy, and she noticed that they make the cashiers login for *each customer*. As a result, their passwords tend to be "12345678" or else a string of all the same characters. Both of which are pretty easy to shoulder-surf. Not that we did such a thing, of course... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
