On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 20:47 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > Putting a password, regardless of source, into a "probe", which by its > > very existence seems to have a higher likelihood of interception, seems > > foolish. If there is a problem along the intermediate steps (if any) and > > somebody is examining stuff, for righteous or nefarious reasons, ... > > > > the passwd is sent to the email address its meant for. if you have If you have to send a probe, does this not raise the possibility that the email is being diverted? If so, the fact that it's sent to... doesn't provide much feeling of security. But I *am* and amateur at this security stuff and buzzwords like "man- in-the-middle" may just cause excess trepidation in me. Anyway, that's what caused me to raise the question. I don't even like it that your (CentOS's) monthly reminder to me is sent with password unencrypted... and I am the only user here. If I could post my public key and have that monthly reminder encrypted, I'd do it. > access to emails being sent to that address, its sort of academic > getting the passwd anyway ( click on forgot passwd, new passwd emailed > out ...etc ) Well, it's too bad that we can't make all access via SS* w/no passwords required. But a new one-time-only-use password (IOW, it must be changed on first use and w/i a specified time interval) isn't too bad. > > - KB > -- Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060512/8afdc355/attachment-0005.sig>