29 Jan
2002
29 Jan
'02
2:29 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Walker [mailto:lgwalker@mts.net]
While passwords may be necessary in a business
environment,
they are a real pain to home-based single users or following owners.
They provide a little extra privacy from prying eyes. Of course, there
is no password that can't be circumvented somehow, given access to the
console, or, in a worst case, the system itself.
I mean, really, I'm in the middle of nowhere in
northern Manitoba,
in a house where I live alone with a protective dog, and only hook up
to my ISP when I want to access it. Do I need this ? But even my
You could turn it off. :)
NEXT demands a password and I had to do an extensive
search to find
out how to re-do the original one. But of course the holy grail of
computer makers is that BIG contract.
Any unix I've ever met will let you blank the password out... it will
still ask for it, but you can just hit return.
complicate my life. I thought that that's one of
the things
that computers
were for. To uncomplicate tasks and processes. On my computers
Certainly they make higher math and weather modeling much easier. ;)
I DON"T NEED NO STEENKING PASSWORDS.
Windblows is the least of the transgressors. The UNIX type
are the worst
since they grew up in a security-conscious business environment.
Lots of unixes even have an "auto-login" feature.
Right now after going thru a difficult Linux Red-Hat
install
I can't find the
slip I wrote the password it insists upon, and must do a
fresh install.
Actually you may be able to boot in single user mode without a
password. Try it.
Fuck it, I'll reformat and look at another OS.
I believe that OS's or programs that don't provide
non-password access
should be boycotted.
Well, again, just because it asks for a password, doesn't mean you've
got to use one...
Do these guys really think that passwords can protect
their data if
they don't have physical access protection ? We all know that even
supposedly deleted files can be ressurected. This is SUIT mentality
and they live in an imaginary world that they proclaim is the BOTTOM
LINE, realistic view of things. As MS has learned to it's
chagrin every
man-made "security" feature can be end-run by some bright young
hacker.
Um, well, certainly any MS security feature can be circumvented by a
blindfolded, dyslexic baboon. :)
You are also right that there is a way around any security control,
given physical access to the system. That really isn't the point of
software security, though.
I do realize that you are likely to be ranting due to frustration, but
if nothing else, try blanking out some of your passwords and
save yourself some of that trouble. :)
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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