Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

["Casual J. Programmer" <casualprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 19:41 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
> Putrycz, Erik wrote:
> > > After in excess of 38 years in this industry, I can proudly wear the
> > > paranoid tag if attached. After so many years of no problems arising,
> > > someone comes up with the idea that new users are so thick, they will
> > > have severe difficulty with 2 passwords.
> >
> > I have over 200 passwords total, given that each stupid online service
> > requires a separate account and many times they have password entropy
> > requirements. This gets over my memory limits; I'd be surprised to be
> > the only one in this situation.
> > So you can certainly count me in for having difficulties to memorise 2
> > complex passwords for one computer.
> >
> > Erik.
>
> I see the difficulty..... e.g 199 no problem, 200th the straw that broke 
> the camel's back. I haven't counted how many I need, but they are quite 
> a few and when I was in full time employment, we had multiple passwords 
> that changed every 30 days - also presented no problem.
> If a couple of passwords on a box causes so much havoc, is such a major 
> obstruction and is the major challenge that the technology presents its 
> users with, then global warming must be causing sieve type memory 
> retention problems.
> I wonder why in all its years of existence, it never has been a problem. 
> Are they trying to say that there are now brainless new users that must 
> be catered for? I think most of the ones you imply as "the brainless" 
> would take exception to that tag.
> Separate root and user passwords served us well before and through the 
> Windows era and before the current Ubuntu fad and there is no real 
> literate reason for it to change.
> What do you think all the new users did before this idiocy crept in?
> Regards
> Sid.

There is really no reason to keep the "non-paranoid" audience from
posting their passwords on their favorite blog or put them on a sticker
underneath their keyboard. They can always check ( willingly and in full
conscience ) the boxes for "use as root password" and "login
automatically", but why this sloppiness should be pressed on new,
uncritical users without a hint on what may become of it, is really
escaping my intellectual capacities.

Casual


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