What your password?: article

[El_Cu_Guy]

Office workers give a passwords for a cheap pen (http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30324.html)

[hard candy]

I would hold out for at least $2.

[hop-frog]

I'd give them a made up password and take the pen.

[LrngTheHardWay]

Same here, Frog.

The departure for me, from the article, is the fact that I get most of my "unsavory" e-mail from females.

[El_Cu_Guy]

WHOOoosh!!!

That's the sound of the article going completely over your head. It isn't about people being tempted by cheap gifts. It's about the increase in stupidity regarding security.

[Kaligraphic]

So what's in your /etc/passwd?

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by Kaligraphic
So what's in your /etc/passwd? bilbo:x:501:501:Bryan Kadzban:/home/bilbo:/bin/bash
cron:x:100:100:Cron daemon runs as this user:/var/empty:/bin/bash
glibc:x:10000:10001:GNU C library:/usr/src/packages/glibc:/bin/bash
gcc:x:10001:10002:GNU Compiler Collection:/usr/src/packages/gcc:/bin/bash
findutils:x:10003:10004:File-searching utilities:/usr/src/packages/findutils:/bin/bash
gawk:x:10004:10002:GNU awk implementation:/usr/src/packages/gawk:/bin/bash
ncurses:x:10005:10001:Curses terminal library:/usr/src/packages/ncurses:/bin/bash
vim:x:10006:10004:Vi IMproved:/usr/src/packages/vim:/bin/bash
bison:x:10007:10002:Bison, replacement for yacc:/usr/src/packages/bison:/bin/bash
less:x:10008:10004:Pager program:/usr/src/packages/less:/bin/bash
groff:x:10009:10004:Man-page formatter:/usr/src/packages/groff:/bin/bash
man:x:10010:10004:Manual page viewer:/usr/src/packages/man:/bin/bash
perl:x:10011:10002:Perl language:/usr/src/packages/perl:/bin/bash Etc., etc.... certainly no passwords. What, do you think I don't realize the value of shadowing the passwords? :p

Oh, and yes, that is a separate user for each package I have installed. Install them each as their own user, and it makes uninstallation later a breeze. ;)