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other
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response 259 of 293:
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Mar 3 16:05 UTC 2002 |
Nope, and there never will be. Never with Grex, and never with anything
else into which you have to type a password, unless the author of the
software wrote in password functionality as a mere formality without
really caring about it.
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gull
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response 260 of 293:
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Mar 3 17:13 UTC 2002 |
I second #259, though I do like the more recent convention in some
software of displaying asterisks as you type your password. Makes it
more obvious that you've actually hit the keys and the software is
actually listening.
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jmsaul
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response 261 of 293:
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Mar 3 17:21 UTC 2002 |
Re #257: Do I get a wet, sloppy kiss, too?
Re #254: I never claimed to be a perfect typist. I'm a good one, but not
a perfect one. I don't need to see what I'm typing, though,
because I usually notice when I screw up. Making the password
visible for everyone when it's typed is a really bad idea.
Even worse than leaving the annoying-but-somehow-useless-for-
preventing-hacking delay in.
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aruba
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response 262 of 293:
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Mar 3 17:38 UTC 2002 |
Re #261: Not from me, but perhaps some other Grexer will oblige you.
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jmsaul
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response 263 of 293:
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Mar 3 17:47 UTC 2002 |
Tease.
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davel
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response 264 of 293:
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Mar 3 21:06 UTC 2002 |
re 260: I often am glad for things that echo asterisks or something. However,
if I were logging in from a public place, I'd worry about it. Making it
easier for people to know for sure how many characters you're typing is not
all that good an idea.
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gelinas
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response 265 of 293:
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Mar 3 21:36 UTC 2002 |
Lotus Notes put up a random number of heiroglyphs, rather than asterisks.
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bilz
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response 266 of 293:
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Mar 3 22:12 UTC 2002 |
why is this so slow?
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gelinas
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response 267 of 293:
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Mar 3 23:52 UTC 2002 |
What do you mean by "slow"? If picospan ("bbs"), then it's probably because
this is a long-running conversation.
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mdw
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response 268 of 293:
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Mar 4 01:02 UTC 2002 |
The bad password delay has been a standard part of Unix login programs
for a long time. The retry shouldn't be obnoxious unless you've managed
to typo your password twice, in which case, it probably won't hurt for
you to slowdown and think about what you're doing.
The IETF folks want to put a built-in delay of >1second (via a
computationally expensive CPU loop) for encrypting K5 passwords via AES.
If you want to worry about something, why not worry about that?
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gelinas
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response 269 of 293:
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Mar 4 01:22 UTC 2002 |
What is their excuse?
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jmsaul
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response 270 of 293:
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Mar 4 02:24 UTC 2002 |
Re #268: It's obnoxious on one retyping. Try it. (I don't typo it
twice.)
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mdw
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response 271 of 293:
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Mar 4 02:43 UTC 2002 |
Slow down brute force password cracking.
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oval
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response 272 of 293:
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Mar 4 07:41 UTC 2002 |
:)
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jhudson
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response 273 of 293:
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Mar 4 18:17 UTC 2002 |
The problem with ^H, ^U, etc. is buried in /usr/sbin/telnetd.
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hash
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response 274 of 293:
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Mar 6 03:25 UTC 2002 |
finding a pattern in spam:
http://www.blackant.net/code/oth/random/nlp-spamfilter.php
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jep
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response 275 of 293:
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Mar 6 22:14 UTC 2002 |
Backtalk is not working; it stopped working about an hour ago. I can
still telnet in, though.
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remmers
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response 276 of 293:
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Mar 7 01:54 UTC 2002 |
Seems to be working now. My guess is that httpd died, then got
restarted.
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keesan
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response 277 of 293:
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Mar 7 03:17 UTC 2002 |
Looking up www.google.com, guessing (no DNS numbers available?).
The internet is not terribly usable with lynx at present.
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gelinas
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response 278 of 293:
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Mar 7 03:33 UTC 2002 |
About three minutes before #277, I noticed that
load average: 12.08, 7.59, 6.00
I could be wrong, of course, but I suspect the two events are related.
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russ
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response 279 of 293:
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Mar 9 19:55 UTC 2002 |
"nslookup" is freezing up instead of reporting data.
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jp2
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response 280 of 293:
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Mar 9 20:18 UTC 2002 |
This response has been erased.
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rlejeune
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response 281 of 293:
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Mar 12 21:21 UTC 2002 |
I have been having probs with nslookup freezing up as well.
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janc
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response 282 of 293:
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Mar 17 17:25 UTC 2002 |
I'm a lousy typist. I've been known to cut/paste passwords.
Of course, you can log in to Backtalk, where most browsers do echo
bullets with each keystroke and where the authentication delays are,
well, different.
I really would like it if login/telnet/etc would accept *both* CONTROL-H
and DELETE as backspace characters when entering logins and passwords.
It's a pain to remember which key to use where.
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gelinas
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response 283 of 293:
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Mar 18 00:28 UTC 2002 |
Jan, are you not in probably the very best of all positions to make your dream
a reality?
I've heard UNIX geeks complain before about the lack of concensus on a
backspace key. The discussions usually result in everyone throwing up their
hands in disgust and frustration.
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