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On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 11:16:18 -0600 Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > This might show up twice, I think I sent it from a bad address previously. > > If so, please accept my apologies. > > > > > > In Fedora 22, one developer (and only one) decided that if

Once upon a time, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> said: > Much of the evil on the Internet today ? DDoS armies, spam spewers, phishing botnets ? is done on pnwed hardware, much of which was compromised by previous botnets banging on weak SSH passwords. Since most of that crap comes from Windows hosts, the security of Linux SSH passwords seems hardly relevant. > Your freedom to use any password you like stops at the...

...> "Sorry, that password is already in use.? The new rules are nowhere near that stringent: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/pam_pwquality.8.html > Who thinks the password policy in my machines are my concern. Much of the evil on the Internet today ? DDoS armies, spam spewers, phishing botnets ? is done on pnwed hardware, much of which was compromised by previous botnets banging on weak SSH passwords. Your freedom to use any password you like stops at the point where exercising that freedom creates a risk to other people?s machines. In the previous thread on this topi...

On 07/28/2015 02:06 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> said: >> Much of the evil on the Internet today ? DDoS armies, spam spewers, phishing botnets ? is done on pnwed hardware, much of which was compromised by previous botnets banging on weak SSH passwords. > > Since most of that crap comes from Windows hosts, the security of Linux > SSH passwords seems hardly relevant. > >> Your freedom to use any passwor...

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net> wrote: > Once upon a time, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> said: >> Much of the evil on the Internet today ? DDoS armies, spam spewers, phishing botnets ? is done on pnwed hardware, much of which was compromised by previous botnets banging on weak SSH passwords. > > Since most of that crap comes from Windows hosts, the security of Linux > SSH passwords seems hardly relevant. Botnets are terrible, it doesn't matter ho...

On Jul 28, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net> wrote: > > Once upon a time, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> said: >> Much of the evil on the Internet today ? DDoS armies, spam spewers, phishing botnets ? is done on pnwed hardware, much of which was compromised by previous botnets banging on weak SSH passwords. > > Since most of that crap comes from Windows hosts Cite? Not that it?s relevant, since even if the skew were 9:1, that?s no excuse for not trying to clean up ou...

On 07/28/2015 03:06 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> said: >> Much of the evil on the Internet today ? DDoS armies, spam spewers, phishing botnets ? is done on pnwed hardware, much of which was compromised by previous botnets banging on weak SSH passwords. > Since most of that crap comes from Windows hosts, the security of Linux > SSH passwords seems hardly relevant. > I happen to know from firsthand experience that...

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote: > Much of the evil on the Internet today ? DDoS armies, spam spewers, phishing botnets ? is done on pnwed hardware, much of which was compromised by previous botnets banging on weak SSH passwords. > > Your freedom to use any password you like stops at the point where exercising that freedom creates a risk to other people?s machines. Your freedom to have sshd...

...eady in use.? > > The new rules are nowhere near that stringent: > > http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/pam_pwquality.8.html > >> Who thinks the password policy in my machines are my concern. > > Much of the evil on the Internet today ? DDoS armies, spam spewers, phishing botnets ? is done on pnwed hardware, much of which was compromised by previous botnets banging on weak SSH passwords. > > Your freedom to use any password you like stops at the point where exercising that freedom creates a risk to other people?s machines. > > In the previous...