[ale] How do you deal with SSO at home?

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Wed Dec 13 14:51:44 EST 2017


On 2017-12-13 11:14, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
> I thought NIS+ solved the issues of original NIS.  I've never used NIS+ so wouldn't swear to it.
> 
> For personal stuff I'm paranoid enough to use different passwords for everything.  If internet sites offer it I even use separate user names.
> 
> Minor rant:   
> In the old days you had to guess both username and password to login to a server.   Nowadays most of the internet uses email address as username which means they've given 50% of the answer to most hackers. 

Not necessarily.  You still get to decide which email address to use so
every site could use a different one.  Many of my logins on websites
have the same domain name but the username in front of @ is unique to
the site so it's a little harder.


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