I'm sure my students (I teach high school, too) have picked really bad passwords, too, but I have no good way to enforce the picking of good ones.
Todd
On Dec 12, 2003, at 3:30 AM, Ross McInnes (Systems) wrote:
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
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