[Cryptography] Order of username and password entry

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Tue Apr 6 19:16:18 EDT 2021


On Mon, 5 Apr 2021, Michael Nelson via cryptography wrote:

> To avoid this, I now have a rule: always enter the username first, then 
> the password. If you put the un into the pwd slot, the non-displaying 
> will alert you.

And I like it the way that Unix (and other systems) still prompt you for a 
password if the username does not exist; that way, valid names cannot be 
harvested.

-- Dave


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