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Re: [opensuse-factory] Experience of switching to Factory from Ubuntu
- From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:03:38 +0100
- Message-id: <200803211403.38984.oneukum@xxxxxxx>
Am Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2008 20:37:21 schrieb Alberto Passalacqua:
Does it? If we don't offer it, people can do it anyway. But if they do
it anyway, we give an attacker a cryptographical advantage by encrypting
the same password twice.
Regards
Oliver
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About the "Use the same password for root", I think it's plain wrong.
Using the same password for root and the user reduces security.
Does it? If we don't offer it, people can do it anyway. But if they do
it anyway, we give an attacker a cryptographical advantage by encrypting
the same password twice.
Regards
Oliver
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