> >From: "Chris B. Wilson, VectorNet" <cbw@vector.net>
>
> >Give it a real password?
>
> Excuse me if I sound rude, but few of those that are concerned about
> security, and have paid attention to the many incidents with password
> sniffing etc during the last few years, consider reusable (as opposed to
> one-time) passwords as a useful protection for much of anything these
> days. If you can restrict their usability e.g. as with filters for
> telnet access to the PortMaster, they might be acceptable, but on a
> dialup line, no way. YMMV, of course, if all that is at stake is
> someone's connect-time charges or less, you might not worry about this.
>
> >From: Robert Hanson <roberth@cet.cet.com>
MY SUGGESTION:
>
> >why not make a secondary programable remote bangroot login... so we could
> >call it anything we wished up to 8 chars.... just an idea anyways....
ONE OF YOUR ARG's
>
> This effectively amounts to using a longer password, and doesn't alter
> the fundamental problem, I think.
>
> --Per Hedeland
> per@erix.ericsson.se
>
i said programable LOGIN name... other than "!root".... "if" they dont know
what to logon as then hey... your home free... password are supplemental
and "of course" necessary after the fact of initiating a login...
-rh