V Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 08:53:15AM -0400, Stephen Smoogen napsal(a):
> On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 08:27, Petr Pisar <ppi...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Shouldn't we instead start with strengthening the credentials reset even
> > for password-only authentication? I.e. disallowing the reset. Or enabling
> > having multiple passwords.
> >
> >
> Maybe. What work do you not want done in Fedora for the next couple of years
> to do this. There are a lot of 'OMG we need this' initiatives and very few
> volunteers who have the skill level to help anymore.
> 
> That said, having multiple passwords without additional tokens attached is
> a security nightmare. I have dealt with 6 systems which had them because
> people thought it would cut down work and it either ramped up work or ended
> up with security compromises which were horrible. Disallowing resets end up
> requiring about 2-3 people whose main job every couple of minutes is to go
> through some form to try and confirm a person is who they are and then reset
> manually. You are welcome to take that over as your full time job.
> 
My idea of disallowing reset is no reset. That does not mean somobody will
manually reset records in a database. It means no way. It means new account,
a different login name and repeating the onboarding process (becoming
a packager, nonresponsive process for the old account, overtaking orphaned
packages).

-- Petr

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: PGP signature

_______________________________________________
devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Fedora Code of Conduct: 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives: 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Do not reply to spam, report it: 
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue

Reply via email to