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(...) FTP standard ASCII text document, one word per line. Convert to ISO-8859-1 if necessary (character-based search & replace, quick). Feed to indexer via pipe. Walk away, sip coffee, come back later, it's all done. No typing. --Todd (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Password crack detection and slowing (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) I've been thinking about this more tonight, and reading a bit about SysV semaphores, but I don't have experience with them and I'm finding the docs confusing, especially where Perl is concerned. Anyway, upon further reflection, I wonder if (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ^^^...^^^ Ouch! I can only imagine the time it took you to key all that data in. (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's a problem. It does fail too many good pw's, partially because it tries to be too clever in transmogrifications and 20 different language lookups in its dictionary of 3 million words. (It was just as easy to put in that many as it was to (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yup, it's a serious system. Most systems don't take pw issues seriously. (...) We'll see how many people find it funny nine months from now. --Todd (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm amazed on how complex and sophisticated the Lugnet password system is. There are the password suggestions, Password strength analyzer which even includes an internal dictionary and gives you the CPU time that it took to analyze the (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) My old bank (US Trust) used my social security number + PIN for phone access to my account. Eep. (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) No that would work, I wrote down the password you sent me and the two new ones I chose and they are pretty memorable, I hope. Implement something that generates a new password AND wipes out ALL the old ones in one fell swoop. Then send me the (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) I didn't plan for that. In the beginning, I honestly didn't think that anyone would ever forget their password (or at least not have it written down somewhere that they could find it). I'll have to come up with something. Since the pw's are (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) But doesn't that make somebody have to log in again if they use *any* kind of non-static-IP connection -- i.e., a typical dial-up or DHCP connection -- and not limited only to shared proxy servers? If they're on a typical ISP dial-up PPP (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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