On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:41:33PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > So holy crap does the planet hate it when you ask people to reset their > passwords. In particular though, they hated the following: > > 1. Kittens > > 2. "Password Expiration" is confusing and does not imply "account > expiration". Some may have ignored the warning because they did not > understand what the consequences were. > > 3. Mail aliases going away. This one's legit and accounts for the only > data loss we actually had. > > 4. fedorapeople space going away and not coming back automatically. > > [1] requires the killing of all kittens > > [2] just requires a better email to go out, possibly with a link to a wiki > page. It'd be good for this to be translated. > > [3] requires another "account" type or at least fasClient to be smart > enough to know how old the 'inactive' account is. I'd suggest a month or > so. > > [4] requires us to restore whatever is in > /home/fedora.bak/$username.$timestamp at the time the account becomes > active again. We won't leave $username.fedorapeople.org up for security / > liability reasons. But we will make it transparent to the user that it > looks like their stuff never went away. > > I'm going to disable password reset/account expiration until at least 3 of > the 4 above are done. > Well I'm gonna safely assume that we won't kill all the kittens in time for the next one... :) -- Ian Weller <ianweller@xxxxxxxxx> http://ianweller.org GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36 "Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet." ~ Douglas Adams
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