Re: Password "Hint" Feasibility -- MIDRANGE-L

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Call me paranoid, but it seems to me that you would be making it a lot
easier for some unscrupulous insider (or even hacker) to get someone else's
password.
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Some excellent ideas have been posted of ways to implement a password hint.
But, that doesn't mean its a good idea.  I'd have to agree that "hints"
offer a potential security loophole.  Ironic, because I just finished a web
application in which I provided a password hint feature.  While I might give
a hint for access to a fairly innocuous application, I certainly wouldn't
want that to be a feature of OS/400.




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