From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
To: terry white <twhite@aniota.com>
Cc: linux-admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: root password
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:32:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050331013246.GA25466@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0503301652390.29993@yossarian.aniota.net>
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 04:57:32PM -0800, terry white wrote:
> finally , it more or less assures it not a 'social engineering'
> tactic.
>
> this pretty much a 'knee-jerk' reaction to such requests from 'email
> only' domains ...
>
Good advice, but for this example I don't think it is very applicable. A
determined cracker could simply use google to find that information, there is
no need to go to a mailing list to get this information. I take that back ... a
not-so-determined cracker would probably use google as well.
It is probably better to assume that the person asking really doesn't know
enough and needs help, as opposed to questioning said person's motives.
On the other hand your first reason (helps them to remember their root passwords
if they have to reinstall each time) is a very good one. ;)
--
Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty.
Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-31 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-30 7:16 root password Ankit Jain
2005-03-30 14:07 ` Robin Doer
2005-03-30 16:36 ` Manish Regmi
2005-03-31 0:57 ` terry white
2005-03-31 1:32 ` Jim C. Brown [this message]
2005-04-02 12:38 ` Glynn Clements
2005-04-03 3:03 ` Re[2]: root password *reset root password with grub* Kev
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-30 7:48 root password Wei Zhang GR
2005-03-30 10:31 Rajat Jain, Noida
2005-03-30 13:29 Mike Turcotte
2005-04-03 4:39 Ankit Jain
2005-04-03 5:05 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-04-03 5:14 ` Grant Coady
2005-04-04 2:48 ` Glynn Clements
2005-04-04 14:24 ` Scott Taylor
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