Re: gdm Create User

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:26:51PM +0200, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> Knowing that an user exists or not is in principle about the same
> dangerous as knowing whether a machine is up or not. Or should we
> declare ping to be a security threat?

This isn't true. Many attack vectors require knowing an exist account name.

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