Re: Fedora Account Change

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On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 01:02:10 +0530
Buddhike Kurera <bckurera@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Larry Brower <larry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Couldn't we expand on this feature to allow somethign like answering
> > "account security questions" similar to how banks and other
> > organizations do ?
> >
> 
> I m not that sure that the security question is secure enough since we
> are using a lengthy-strong password. (I doudt whether anyone can bare
> mind the answer for the security question if he/she tend to loose
> their password) One idea from me is using the web of trust as we are
> almost using it. How about endorsing around 3-5 fedora contributors
> about the request personally so that infra can make the change
> internally.

Sure, but many people are in places where they don't personally have
3-5 other Fedora folks around to meet with them and vouch for them. 

> For an example if I lost my access then I can ask my local
> contributors to speak for me and show the trust and endorse my
> request. So that the infra team can set it internally.
> 
> Investing much time on this is not required as we are not having such
> cases all the time but very few.

yeah, it doesn't come up all that often really... 

kevin


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