[Hcoop-discuss] Web passwords

[Ryan M.]

Well, having been using ssh-key *safer* all this time, I've since forgotten my main password.

So there's a reason, although it is a rather unexcusable one! :-P  

Frankly, I do believe that ssh-keys should really be the universal method of logging in on every website in the world.  Just upload the public key and viola.  Instant recognition.  But obviously it doesn't make sense for one reason or the other, else it would have been done by now.  Then again, our lovely Corporations would probably never let it happen.

Ryan

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 07:18:45 -0700, AC wrote about "[Hcoop-discuss] Web passwords" :

> Recently someone asked why we have separate passwords to log into the 
> portal, and I didn't have a good answer.  In the past, our analogous web 
> site was not accessible via SSL, so it made sense to use a less valuable 
> password.
> 
> Does anyone see a reason not to use main login passwords as web 
> passwords?  If not, then any suggestions of the easiest way to get 
> Apache to use /etc/passwd or equivalent?
> 
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