[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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