Bash [ -z hello ]

Re:Bash [ -z hello ] by mikeash on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @11:25PM (#7947989)

That hardly helps at all. Now instead of knowing your exact password, your attacker knows that your password is one of these 10-20 entries, and it's easy to just try them all.

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Re:Bash [ -z hello ] by rsl7 on Thursday June 26, 2014 @09:43AM (#7949557)

Nobody has ever suggested this is a secure or ideal way to do it..

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Re:Bash [ -z hello ] by mikeash on Thursday June 26, 2014 @10:25AM (#7949767)

My point is that it's not really even better.

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