Re: What If

Juergen Nieveler <juergen.nieveler.nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

:Fred J. McCall <fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:
:>:The last tidbit I heard about the San Francisco story was that someone
:>:in the city administration wanted the sysadmin to give the password
:>:file to another individual and the sysadmin baulked because the other
:>:individual "didn't need to know that". Apparently the sysadmin's
:>:concern was somewhat justified because the city attorney is supposed
:>:to have listed the user names _and passwords_ in the complaint the
:>:city made in court against the sysadmin. Oh well.
:>:
:>
:> That would be a neat trick, since the passwords AREN'T IN the
:> 'password file'.
:
:We're not talking about the passwords file on the system, I guess, but
:rather some sort of text file containing the passwords.
:

Ok, so it sounds like this is his list of what he changed them to.

:
:And yes, looks like the City of SF would have been a lot safer
:listening to their Sysadmin:
:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/sf_rogue_sysadmin_password_mess/
:

The Press (as usual) seems somewhat confused. They don't appear to be
able to decide if this file is a list of the changed passwords or
somehow one that he produced of other users. I lean toward the
latter.

I'm curious why you think they should have been "listening to the
Sysadmin" and "would have been a lot safer" had they done so. It
seems to me that he's the PROBLEM.

--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to
live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Dryden
.

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