From: William Pechter <pechter@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Recovered /etc/passwd files
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 07:09:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e0412a9-ba41-6c70-9a42-3a1da710823d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1910111721430.52199@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 10/11/2019 2:24 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Nemo wrote:
>
>> Some (large) companies regularly run password crackers on their
>> employees' passwords and inform them if their passwords are found
>> "insufficiently strong to protect company assets".
>
> An ex-employer of mine (not the reason I left) used to do just that.
>
>> Good, bad, distasteful, prudent, off-topic?
>
> Depends :-)
>
> -- Dave
And when I was an instructor and sysadmin at Pyramid, I caught a
co-worker with a SUID ksh binary named "..." "hidden under his home
directory in a directory named "..." because su took too long. Yeah and
su had logging. Thank you COPS. Not that I distrusted him -- but when
you share sysadmin duties there are things thatshouldn't be done.
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-11 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-08 18:38 Norman Wilson
2019-10-08 18:51 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-08 21:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-08 21:22 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-09 5:49 ` Nigel Williams
2019-10-09 5:52 ` Nigel Williams
2019-10-09 6:00 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-09 8:16 ` Andy Kosela
2019-10-09 8:53 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2019-10-09 9:16 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-09 23:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-10 6:31 ` Vincenzo Nicosia
2019-10-09 19:59 ` Rob Pike
2019-10-09 20:09 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-10-09 21:05 ` Bakul Shah
2019-10-09 21:09 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-09 21:16 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-09 22:05 ` Adam Thornton
2019-10-09 23:28 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-10-11 12:28 ` Anthony Martin
2019-10-09 20:14 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-10 20:24 ` Clem Cole
2019-10-10 20:38 ` Nemo
2019-10-10 20:52 ` John P. Linderman
2019-10-11 6:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-11 11:09 ` William Pechter [this message]
2019-10-11 23:46 ` Finn O'Leary
2019-10-12 0:21 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-10 8:21 ` Dan Cross
2019-10-10 11:58 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-10 12:07 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-18 14:34 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-18 15:01 ` Royce Williams
2019-10-18 15:05 ` Royce Williams
2019-10-18 18:32 ` Royce Williams
2019-10-19 13:11 ` John P. Linderman
2019-10-10 13:57 ` Henry Bent
2019-10-10 14:05 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-15 16:32 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-10-10 14:10 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-11 2:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-08 20:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-08 21:15 ` Michael Kjörling
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-10-19 13:45 Norman Wilson
2019-10-19 20:27 ` ewe2
2019-10-19 20:41 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-03 18:51 Finn O'Leary
2019-10-03 19:30 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-03 20:41 ` Finn O'Leary
2019-10-03 22:04 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-10-03 23:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-04 0:59 ` WIlliam Cheswick
2019-10-04 16:08 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-04 10:29 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-04 15:05 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2019-10-05 18:05 ` Tom Jones
2019-10-08 17:38 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-08 20:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-08 20:57 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-09 12:55 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-09 16:17 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-05 17:29 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-10-05 17:49 ` Arthur Krewat
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