On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 17:41 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I have NDI why they just >> can't send the pw to my recorded email addy and leave it otherwise >> alone. > > I'd imagine for the same reason that you can't just read other user's > passwords from /etc/(passwd,shadow): they are stored hashed so that > leaking the password data doesn't leak the passwords themselves.
Also, email is not a secure mode of communication. > > Ross > -- > Ross Burton mail: [email protected] > jabber: [email protected] > www: http://burtonini.com > > > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
