I'd guess most of them do use a shared password.
Rob Church
On 01/02/06, Carl Fûrstenberg <azatoth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A question, all those sockpupped accounts (Willy, the
North Carolinan
Communist etc...), do they use passwords?
On 1/31/06, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
I've disabled the ability to use blank passwords on wiki accounts.
For a long time we treated accounts very laxly in this regard; there
generally
wasn't _that_ much reason to secure a casual account unless you were one
of the
tiny number of sysops.
In recent years though the number of sysops has exploded, and we've added
customization features like the user javascript which are cool but
potentially
really annoying if someone gets into your account and messes with them. As
a
small concession to security and accountability, it's time for blank
passwords
to go.
While running some password security checks, I found that a handful of
sysop
accounts had blank passwords. Probably some non-sysop accounts also had
blanks.
Affected accounts can reset the password by the automated e-mail password
gadget
on the login form, unless of course they didn't put in an e-mail.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
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