Preventing users from loggin into a unix box

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Thu Apr 19 16:33:30 2001

On April 19, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> maybe I'm just being dense, but wouldn't the easiest solution be to just
> not give others accounts on your box??

  That approach assumes un-guessable passwords.

  It's trivial to write a program that iterates through all possible
character combinations. Sure, it might take weeks, or even
months...but then they're in.

     -Dave McGuire
Received on Thu Apr 19 2001 - 16:33:30 BST