Not if the account is compromised.  One comprmised account is all it takes - period.

Travis

On 7/31/06, Oblio < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would prefer to give the benefit of the doubt to my users.  I
distrust outside deliveries more, and I expect my users to make
mistakes.  Besides, if the account is compromised, I'm not very
worried that the abuser is going to run a dictionary attack against
the rest of the company, or my server for that matter.  Further,
abuse of a dictionary attack is much smaller than abuse of a
compromised account.  If authentication is sufficient protection
against open relays, than is should be sufficient protection against
dictionary attacks.

At 7/31/2006 12:08 PM, you wrote:
>And what if one of them get their password
>stolen/hacked/misused?  What if there network is compromised?  It is
>either fail safe and fail not so safe.  What would you prefer to
>happen if not fail safe?

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Travis Rabe
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