From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 7:28:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F3AA37B408 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andre2pj3ipvtr (ool-182dd94d.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.217.77]) by mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec 14 2000)) with SMTP id <0GKD0064FMTQE2@mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:27:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:26:42 -0400 From: anc Subject: Re: reading password To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: free bsd Message-id: <008201c14829$9b2903e0$4dd92d18@andre2pj3ipvtr> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: <017e01c14787$44091ed0$a50410ac@olmct.net> <20010928090000.B5576@raggedclown.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is this a serious question ? > It takes all of 5 seconds to generate them a new one. > A brute force attack might take a few decades. I have many clients who can not speak good english, I was just getting tired of first explaing I had to reset the password then explaining what the new password was ;) Ok so it was a bad Idea, it seamed ok at the time;) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message