Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!toro!nick From: nick@toro.UUCP (Nicholas Jacobs) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: PASSWORD GUESSING Message-ID: <845@toro.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 89 23:02:10 GMT References: <1919@aucs.UUCP> <737@rwing.UUCP> <1043@accuvax.nwu.edu> <3532@internal.Apple.COM> <3126@rti.UUCP> Reply-To: nick@toro.UUCP (Nicholas Jacobs) Organization: Merrill Lynch Municipal Securities Systems Development, NY Lines: 8 A method that I'm fond of is using romanized foreign words. Particularly if you know words that are not likely to be commonly known. This avoids the "run the Unix dictionary" syndrome. Of course, your users may not appreciate be asked to remember passwords in Serbo-Croatian or Turkish! :-) Nicholas Jacobs UUCP: ...!uunet!toro!nick Internet: toro!nick@uunet.uu.net AT&T: (212) 236-3230