how can I override passwd?

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:55:47AM -0500, Douglas Frank wrote:
[top-posting fixed]
> >Think how much fun it'd be if a *non*-colleague script kiddy broke your
> >password and started serving his *own* porn collection from your accounts
> >all over your network.
> If he can get past the corporate firewall, a srictly compliant password 
> on my account ain't gonna be much of a challenge!

Speaking as an admin who has seen this happen: your weak password may be
part of the mechanism by which the attacker bypasses the firewall. Computer
networks are a mesh of interconnected systems; security needs to be good at
all points for it to be good at all.



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