From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OjkZ3-0002Dq-7P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:04:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75373E09B0 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 934D3E095D for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:12:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyf1 with SMTP id 1so1047276gyf.40 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:12:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=o2K5VOj+/pFajmOtnW1Mbc6ZFh+R1HxpY0vtMAjpepA=; b=c0k9wfn1O097t1Qq26t0GBF8CmUjvwk7asqDu2cCB4E8XiHbsc5q3DX8HHQCPr45vi V8ErkGAi+TFfI8FK7rbl+ojf1gmskr93Kr8PaBSxaFegfXK8/7oGBQgXAlBfEbxmRuRm dAjwHSJXP+uPnni/ZQw5LArueoETjjnmsKyu0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=V9FTLmY18gcRc9R0TWUu0Vnf5DI4n022ov8U4joQkG2tZKe+n6CcyWw3u/suafYwJx W/Td/34t4QXn5sUjOZeiq5dTmqk9rp+XEIigzQhwlEiQwzaHmtN9HLOoe8of+/98eHX7 xNha/EnqcddRWWvdCp9VqJVZa/bWZvZO61VzU= Received: by 10.151.122.10 with SMTP id z10mr1292116ybm.61.1281665520240; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:12:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-95-151.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.95.151]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p14sm2235231ybb.21.2010.08.12.19.11.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C64A9ED.4090409@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:11:57 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100801 Gentoo/2.0.6 SeaMonkey/2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice References: <20100810011805.GA15816@linux1> <201008102050.49976.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4C62E90A.20601@gmail.com> <69CC61AA-F54C-4FAE-AE2D-20E6E3ED3E67@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <69CC61AA-F54C-4FAE-AE2D-20E6E3ED3E67@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0e49cd69-0132-4fec-bbe2-3440f53eb06b X-Archives-Hash: 90e1e3f16cdfc0d96cb8feb12d1b7487 Stroller wrote: > > On 11 Aug 2010, at 19:16, Dale wrote: >> Stroller wrote: >>> >>> On 10 Aug 2010, at 20:22, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: >>>> ... >>>> Good Luck getting people to change them frequently and haveing your >>>> techs and it departments meeting complexity and length policy. >>> >>> I'm pretty sure that's a trivial setting for expiration policy and a >>> PAM plugin or option to enforce complexity. >> >> Thing about changing passwords to often, the person forgets what the >> password is. > > Then don't change it with frequency. > > It was Mr Valliant-Saunders who seemed to be saying that that is > difficult to enforce, and I was merely replying to him. > > Stroller. > For some reason I missed the original of his. I still can't find it even tho it is quoted here. My reply wasn't to you but just a "general" reply. Most of my replies are "general". Nothing aimed at you tho. Dale :-) :-)