On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 18:41 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 12 October 2011 17:44, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> wrote:
> > All existing users of the Fedora Account System (FAS) at
> >
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts are required to change their
> > password and upload a NEW ssh public key before 2011-11-30.
>
> I have to upload a *new* public key? Why should I have two sets of keys?
Meant 'replacement'. You can only have one key in FAS, afaict.
> > * Nine or more characters with lower and upper case letters, digits and
> > punctuation marks.
> > * Ten or more characters with lower and upper case letters and digits.
> > * Twelve or more characters with lower case letters and digits
> > * Twenty or more characters with all lower case letters.
>
> This is just insane. My existing password is 8 digits and
> alphanumeric, and given that I have to enter it over and over again
> (and prove "I'm human", another WTF) when creating updates I'm
really
> wondering if I want to bother.
>
> Talk about putting up barriers.
I can think of no reason why everyone shouldn't use a password manager.
It's just hands down a better way to do things in every respect. Eight
characters alphanumeric is not actually a very strong password; the
numbers on how long it'd take to brute force with e.g. EC2 are quite
tiny. And an account like yours certainly counts as high-value.
In fact there are rainbow tables out there easily available of all 8
alpha numeric combinations where you wouldn't even need EC2 to crack a
lot of them. I know of a couple DBs where they have Terabytes of pre
calculated password hashes and its just a simple string match.
Peter