Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:8077 comp.misc:2760 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucdavis!uop!todd From: todd@uop.edu (Dr. Nethack a.k.a Race Bannon ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.misc Subject: Re: Password choices Summary: whimp! Message-ID: <1597@uop.edu> Date: 10 Jul 88 11:03:51 GMT References: <1339@daisy.UUCP> <377@mfgfoc.UUCP> Organization: Quest Laboratories Lines: 31 In article <377@mfgfoc.UUCP>, exodus@mfgfoc.UUCP (Greggie-boy Onufer) writes: > And aside from the password choices listed, also commonly used > are keyboard patterns: qwerty, asdfg, etc. > > Please: DO NOT USE WORDS FOUND IN THE UNIX SYSTEM DICTIONARY. FOR THAT > MATTER, PLEASE DO NOT USE REAL WORDS AS FOUND IN ANY DICTIONARY. I HAVE > FIRST-HAND KNOWLEDGE OF A USER AT OUR SITE WHO MAILED OUR PASSWORD FILE > TO A FRIEND, AND, WITHIN A WEEK, RECEIVED A LIST OF ALL THE PASSWORDS THAT > WERE REASONABLE!!!! Get it right, it was turnaround in 2 days tops! > Commosense helps: use at least one digit, mix upper and lower case > if your system allows you to. A digit in the middle of the word will > effectively foul up any brute force dictionary-type search. With mods, will run on metacharacters as well. You are just nervous that someone else might get into your files!! I wonder why?? (another story) Besides.. getting root here takes no longer than 5 minutes, if you know how. > Disclaimer: I disclaim. Disclaimer: this was'nt me! > exodus@mfgfoc ...!sun!daver!mfgfoc!exodus (and postmaster/exodus@uop.edu) > AT&T: 415-965-0604 USMAIL: #901 1929 Crisanto Ave, Mtn View, CA 94040 I guess you are happy, you are in mountain view now!