From: Bill Stewart <bstewart@iname.com>
To: davek@6thstreetradio.org, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: sshd error "seteuid: No such device or address"
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 02:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANV9t=SBpUW=U-dXkyPbrNWBTzkAeD9NU+bvO=oNgHhXxu_e8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c03fb227-bac0-cb20-0160-84396b5cc125@gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 8:02 PM David Dombrowsky wrote:
> > Surely you don't mean they have a plain-text copy of your password?
>
> If only I were kidding. Security through Oblivity :)
(?!) There is no reason that anyone else should have your password.
This means (among other things) that someone else who knows your password
can log on _as you_ and you cannot prove otherwise. Nonrepudiation is
completely destroyed.
My advice is to look for employment elsewhere.
Good luck...
Bill
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-13 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-12 21:09 David Dombrowsky
2019-03-12 21:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-13 0:18 ` David Dombrowsky
2019-03-13 0:54 ` Bill Stewart
2019-03-13 2:02 ` David Dombrowsky
2019-03-13 2:11 ` Bill Stewart [this message]
2019-03-13 18:32 ` Achim Gratz
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