Re: Unchangeable passwords

From: Volker Birk (bumens_at_dingens.org)
Date: 10/05/03 

Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 21:56:46 +0200

Huge <huge@ukmisc.org.uk> wrote:
> People write passwords down. The more of them they have to remember,
> the harder they are and the more often they are changed, the more they
> write them down. And they write them down in stupid places. This is
> far more to do with psychology than crypto.

That's right. So noone of those people should have UID 0.

VB. 

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