From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: "Steve Simon" Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:18:36 +0000 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems Topicbox-Message-UUID: 892768f0-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > ... it'd be nice if there was some way for a factotum > protocol to generate a key that stayed in long term storage (i.e. in secstore) > but currently, i don't think there's a way to do it, other > than manually. I was needing this recently - I have to change my windows filserver password every couple of months. It would be nice if I could automate this process having a program generate me a random password, passit to the server, and register it into secstore. alternatively I suspose I should just try and convince the IT dep to stop my password from expiring. Even more off topic - why do people think regular password expiry improves system security (as opposed to enforcing a password complexity constraint)? I know we have many passwords of the form where the integer increments every few months... -Steve