Re: gdm Create User

[Simo Sorce <ssorce redhat com>]

On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 12:30 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:43:53AM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > Yes that is true. But not having a valid account name doubles the complexity 
> > and requires you to work even longer.
> 
> More than doubles. You've now got to guess two items from the dictionary as
> a matching pair. Thats like trying to throw double one rather than a single
> one on dice (only these dice are multi-million sided)

Not really, it is like a doubly long password but with one half very
weak (as it is derived from a name usually). And you have the advantage
that you know which half is weak.

Simo.