Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!mordor!joyce!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!merrimack.EDU!RAND From: RAND@merrimack.EDU ("Rand P. Hall") Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: RE: Thoughts On Password Monitoring, And Re-Use Of Old Passwords... Message-ID: <8807161836.AA02146@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 12 Jul 88 12:55:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 10 The best advice I can give people on the subject of changing passwords came from Steve Tihor. Just tell your users that their password doesn't have to be one word. I've found people to respond very positively to this. 'IHATEMYWIFE' is much easier to type and remember than 'GIGANTESQUE'. It's also much easier to enforce longer passwords. Rand P. Hall rand@merrimack.edu (csnet) Director, Academic Computing 508.683.7111 Merrimack College 315 Turnpike Rd. "There is elegance in simplicity." North Andover, Mass. 01845 - Kimball S. Maddocks