On 5/8/06, Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 07 May 2006 18:41, Jonathan Glaschke wrote:
If administrators are so dump to use an emtpy password on internet
servers, it wouldn't be usefull to force a password.
That's not necessarily dumb. If your location is physically secure and
My surprise was not because of a perceived lack
of security, but rather that the passwd command
will not let you set any password to be the
empty password. (Yes, I know there are other
methods to force it)
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 05:30:21PM -0700, Eric Furman wrote:
--- Peter Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was very surprised, that when I was installing
a 3.9 system, that you can use an empty root
password
I accidentally entered a 'return' when it asked for
the
root password, so I
Think of somebody who burgles your house to steal your privat
data. When
*rofl* -- burgles your house to steal your privat data?
come on, before this happens your dead and your home-cinema is gone!
i'd bet, nobody is really interested in private data. the only
thing i can imagine is
I accidentally entered a 'return' when it asked for the
root password, so I entered a 'return again when
I was asked to repeat the password, thinking that
a empty password would be denied, and I would be asked
again.
man, if you want to enter an empty password, do it! unix is
a system that
in fact, using an empty root password is a perfectly correct and smart
security practice.Don't tell that to anyone, as the openbsd guys are
trying to keep this technique for themselves.
A second step to secure your system is to post your machine's ip here.
Nodoby here believes in security through
On Sunday 07 May 2006 18:41, Jonathan Glaschke wrote:
If administrators are so dump to use an emtpy password on internet
servers, it wouldn't be usefull to force a password.
That's not necessarily dumb. If your location is physically secure and you
dont allow remote root logins there is no
I was very surprised, that when I was installing
a 3.9 system, that you can use an empty root password
I accidentally entered a 'return' when it asked for the
root password, so I entered a 'return again when
I was asked to repeat the password, thinking that
a empty password would be denied, and I
Peter Fraser wrote:
I was very surprised, that when I was installing
a 3.9 system, that you can use an empty root password
I accidentally entered a 'return' when it asked for the
root password, so I entered a 'return again when
I was asked to repeat the password, thinking that
a empty
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 03:14:56PM -0400, Peter Fraser wrote:
I was very surprised, that when I was installing
a 3.9 system, that you can use an empty root password
I accidentally entered a 'return' when it asked for the
root password, so I entered a 'return again when
I was asked to repeat
lesson today:
if you don't want the first entered pwd, enter something different on
the second pass, and it WILL ask you again ;)
Peter Fraser wrote:
I was very surprised, that when I was installing
a 3.9 system, that you can use an empty root password
I accidentally entered a 'return' when
Thus spake Jonathan Glaschke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06/05/06 16:58]:
: Think of somebody who burgles your house to steal your privat data. When
: your computer asks him to enter the password he sure will try the well
: known standard passwords like god, secret and sex. Or maybe
: swordfish. But
--- Peter Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was very surprised, that when I was installing
a 3.9 system, that you can use an empty root
password
I accidentally entered a 'return' when it asked for
the
root password, so I entered a 'return again when
I was asked to repeat the password
On 5/6/06, Eric Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Peter Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was very surprised, that when I was installing
a 3.9 system, that you can use an empty root
password
I accidentally entered a 'return' when it asked for
the
root password, so I entered a 'return
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