From: cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Failed password for invalid user
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 16:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9b50e4dd-271f-0f0d-1ea2-e5dd1b1db20b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <729026379.20170306122218@yandex.ru>
On 3/6/2017 4:22 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, jesus san miguel!
>
>> Besides, user alias "miabuela" is working as expected. Why shouldn't
>> "administrator" alias work as well?
>
> That's the worst idea I've heard since morning.
>
It's a legacy idea to allow different users control a password to the
same uid. Not a bad idea but certainly not a secure one as needed for
today. It's still a valid idea depending on what the uid is used for.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-07 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-03 9:03 jesus san miguel
2017-03-03 13:50 ` Andrey Repin
2017-03-06 8:48 ` jesus san miguel
2017-03-06 9:35 ` Andrey Repin
2017-03-07 16:47 ` cyg Simple [this message]
2017-03-07 16:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-03-07 16:53 ` Corinna Vinschen
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