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Re: passwords in clear text and password protected roles bypass

From: Mladen Gogala <mladen_at_wangtrading.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:37:04 -0500
Message-ID: <20040315193704.GE19867@mladen.wangtrading.com>


On 03/15/2004 02:22:23 PM, Ron Rogers wrote:
> of course you could assign a value to the password and then spend a lot
> of time guessing it when you login.
> Ron

That's the idea. It's great for security, not so much for productivity. I simply had to mention it, in case anybody from the damagement is reading this list. Friends, Romans, fellow listers, please don't direct death threats to me, my family or my pets if your PHB asks you to create script that would change each user's password to a random value for security reasons.



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