i totally agree. unfortunatly my user base is mostly 16-18 year olds. getting them to put anything other than thier football team, phone number or boyfriend/girlfriend's name is quite a task in it self.
Many Thanks Ross McInnes On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > What's the latest research on this? I heard it's better to make users > pick something secure and stick with it, because if you force people to > change, they're likely to pick less secure passwords and do stupid > things with them, like write them down or something. Changing every 3 > months doesn't seem terrible, but it's still a big pain. > > Todd O'Bryan > On Dec 10, 2003, at 8:28 AM, Ross McInnes (Systems) wrote: > > > Recently we were audited and as part of that they looked at our systems > > and policies etc and produced a report. > > > > As part of that report they mentioned about forcing users to change > > thier > > passwords every 90 days or so. > > > > They also mentioned about disabling accounts after 3 login attempts. > > > > Im pretty sure both can be done on NT, but id rather stick with rh and > > samba thanks ever so much. > > > > Can samba does these things? even if its a tinkering kind of job? > > > > Many thanks > > > > Ross McInnes > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
