[Mailman-Users] Can I enforce secure admin passwords?

Grant Taylor gtaylor at riverviewtech.net
Thu Jun 4 01:11:59 CEST 2009


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.)



Grant. . . .


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