[ale] Password security

[Robert Tweedy]

Nor be like the first Linux system I ever encountered when I was a kid 
(a display system w/GUI in some small Marietta computer store I now 
forget the name of). The interaction went something like this:

Me: *sees usernames on login screen's list* Huh, "root" is a funny name.
*enters "root" into password prompt & clicks "Login"*
Me: This is neat; wonder what this is? *proceeds to click other stuff 
accessible from the KDE 2.x launcher menus until it was time to leave, 
during which at some point "reboot" was clicked*...

On 11/6/25 16:35, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> Maybe don't use the organization name as the video surveillance system 
> password like THEY DID AT THE LOUVRE!!
>
> <sitting in stunned silence>
>
> -- 
> James P. Kinney III
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