11 Oct
2019
11 Oct
'19
5:09 p.m.
On 10/11/2019 2:24 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Nemo wrote:
And when I was an instructor and sysadmin at Pyramid, I caught a
co-worker with a SUID ksh binary named "..." "hidden under his home
directory in a directory named "..." because su took too long. Yeah and
su had logging. Thank you COPS. Not that I distrusted him -- but when
you share sysadmin duties there are things thatshouldn't be done.
Bill
Some (large) companies regularly run password
crackers on their
employees' passwords and inform them if their passwords are found
"insufficiently strong to protect company assets".
An ex-employer of mine (not the reason I left) used to do just that.
Good, bad, distasteful, prudent, off-topic?
Depends :-)
-- Dave