> Some schools even use the same password for all lower grade users > instead of providing very easy passwords, and I am not sure if that is > better. I am convinced the schools will come up with some new an > innovative insecure way to work around any enforced password policy, > so it might not matter either way. :)
I doubt short passwords are a problem there, school computers are usually in their own, private network, and hopefully firewalled against the evil outside. If one kid "hacks" another kid's account - well.... I think we could live with that. Imho school computers should boot from network and/or use COW anyway, so it's just a reboot to restore the original system. And the kid's data can be backuped. That's pretty much different in University networks of course - but I guess people there are old enough to learn to use proper passwords. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
