On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:36:21 +1000 Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:31:14PM +1000, Simon Bowden wrote: > > cleartext). Unless someone is regularly keying in the root password and > > they're capturing that somehow, then they'll need to break they crypt to > > get it... (right?). Which seems a little unfair. > > They can pwn all of the machines in the shop and use them as a distributed > cluster to brute-force the root password. If the cafe is connected to the net, they could brute force the pword from external cluster that is previously set up > > - Matt > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
