Relaxing password policy
duncan brown
duncanbrown at linuxadvocate.net
Mon Apr 12 17:52:17 UTC 2004
on the subject of choosing passwords, it's good to choose a password based
on song lyrics, making an acronym with them.
hmb0!t
(hit me baby one last time)
bad example, good policy. =]
Björn Persson said:
> Ian Pilcher wrote:
>
>> I am trying to set up an account for my girlfriend on my FC1 box, and
>> I can already tell that the default password policy is going to drive
>> her insane. (I've previously just gotten around it by su'ing to root
>> and setting my passwords manually, but this won't work for her.)
>>
>> How can I configure the password checking policy to be a little less
>> stringent?
>
> These days everyone needs to know how to make passwords. It might not be
> so important on your home computer, but if your girlfriend can't choose
> a good password there, then she'll choose bad passwords at work and
> other places too, which will make her a security risk. I bet she
> wouldn't want to be a security risk.
>
> A method I like is to make up a grammatically correct but totally absurd
> sentence. The absurdity makes it both easy to remember and very
> difficult to guess. For example take a historical person, like Napoleon,
> give him a modern gadget, say a DVD burner, and let the gadget do or be
> something that only humans can, like cartooning. Take the first letter
> in each word or turn them into digits where possible, and keep any
> special characters. The sentence "Napoleon Bonaparte's DVD burner is a
> cartoonist." might become the password "NB'sDbi1c." When I get to choose
> my passwords myself and use this method I find it nearly impossible to
> forget them.
>
> Björn Persson
>
>
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