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In article <1992Nov12.142251.9131@hubcap.clemson.edu> stehman%citron.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>From article <1992Nov12.084549.5128@unix.brighton.ac.uk>, by ddv@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Domenico De Vitto):
>> Any org. that has a _root_ password in _a_ dictionary gets all it deserves.
>
>Would you like to require people to read c.s.m for a couple of months before
>they're allowed to purchase a computer?

Now that's just rediculous... at our site there are maybe two or three
people who read c.s.m, but 90% of our (hundreds of) users know not to
use dictionary words for passwords on their /personal/ accounts, never
mind the root account.  And we're talking here about users who barely
know enough to get in and out of mail and wouldn't know Unix from Messy
Dogs.

And that's completely beside the point that somebody charged with the
responsibility for administering a multi-user computer system has a
responsibility to acquire at least some basic knowlege about security
issues.  There are dozens of good books on the subject, plus several
highly readable short summary documents available freely on the Net...
in short, the level of negligence in evidence here is inexcusable.

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