Re: Password security

I'd guess most of them do use a shared password.

Rob Church

On 01/02/06, Carl Fûrstenberg <azatoth@...> wrote:
> A question, all those sockpupped accounts (Willy, the North Carolinan
> Communist etc...), do they use passwords?
>
> On 1/31/06, Brion Vibber <brion@...> wrote:
> >
> > I've disabled the ability to use blank passwords on wiki accounts.
> >
> > For a long time we treated accounts very laxly in this regard; there
> > generally
> > wasn't _that_ much reason to secure a casual account unless you were one
> > of the
> > tiny number of sysops.
> >
> > In recent years though the number of sysops has exploded, and we've added
> > customization features like the user javascript which are cool but
> > potentially
> > really annoying if someone gets into your account and messes with them. As
> > a
> > small concession to security and accountability, it's time for blank
> > passwords
> > to go.
> >
> > While running some password security checks, I found that a handful of
> > sysop
> > accounts had blank passwords. Probably some non-sysop accounts also had
> > blanks.
> >
> > Affected accounts can reset the password by the automated e-mail password
> > gadget
> > on the login form, unless of course they didn't put in an e-mail.
> >
> > -- brion vibber (brion  <at>  pobox.com)
> >
> >
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