Grant Taylor wrote: >On 6/3/2009 4:33 PM, Kirke Johnson wrote: >> What is bothering me is list owners who want to use their initials or >> the list name as list owner passwords. I feel like kind of a sitting >> duck when we can't see the passwords they have chosen and have no way to >> enforce decent choices. > >It should be a lot easier to test to see if the password (clear text or >encrypted) matches known values as compared to testing to see if it's an >other wise good password. (No dictionary is needed to check against.)
What known values? List name, yes, but the list owner's name, initials, whatever are not known to Mailman - only her email address. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
