[ILUG] Re: Password management

[p.dempsey at elab.ie]

>On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 02:43:29PM +0100, Kenn Humborg mentioned:
>> >  Motorola store all their's in a password-protected Excel file. Must
take
>> > hours to crack that sort of heavy-weigth encryption :)
>>
//

//    if those users get hit by busses you can't get the file)
>
> Yeah. One of the developers really wound up an admin when he said that he
>could get the root password of any machine in the place, in 24 hours -
?and then proved he could...<grin>
>
>Kate

My boss set a challenged for me and a colleague and I to see who would be
first to break his password encryption system saying it would take weeks.

Imagine his surprise when I emailed him a list of passwords an hour later
along with my decryption program which had been compiled six months
earlier.

I like the idea of substituting the login program with one which records
erroneous entries.

I'd be inclined to go for the envelope system but keep the stationery
cabinet locked.





















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