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RE: [cobalt-users] CGI Script Question



We have a password generator program that cycles the password for us.

jimmy

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Lasman
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 10:12 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] CGI Script Question


Jimmy Gross wrote:

> If that were true the the username admin is a security risk.

It is true.  And the username "admin" is a major security risk. 
Hopefully you've protected it with a good password, something like:
xx2uqyqA (although this is NO LONGER a good password, since it's now in
print and could find it's way into a password dictionary).

Jeff
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nobaloney.net
P. O. Box 52672
Riverside, CA  92517
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