On passwords, securtiy and real -sweat, blook and tears- life
A.J. Bonnema
abonnema at xs4all.nl
Sun Apr 30 06:33:40 UTC 2006
Joe Barnett wrote:
> A.J. Bonnema wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A common problem with passwords are their guessabilty (yes, as a
>> non-native English speaker, I too make up words.....). For instance,
>> even though I have taught my daughter to not use dictionary words,
>> names etc, her password for one of the online accounts got hijacked.
>> What happened was, she used: _____ (five underscores) as a password:
>> arghghgh.
>>
>> But it did make me think again about the security of my home network.
>> Unfortunately most passwords are dictionary words, that are easy to
>> guess using f.i. the john password guesser program, combined with
>> numbers and if you are lucky a special charactor or two.
>>
>> <snip>
>
> apg ("yum install apg" should do the trick I would think) will help
> generate (relatively?) secure passwords, and by default will generate
> some that are least somewhat easy to remember though should be very
> difficult to guess attack.
>
> Try running it with the following command:
>
> apg -M SNCL -r /usr/share/dict/words
>
> which generates output something like this:
>
> Kam5quon!
> 2FrijibIb]
> er7Oddus`
> Un'blahij1
> tru~Glac2
> 3Odnirs%
>
> My guess is that any of the above should be reasonably secure and *not
> too* difficult to remember.
>
Thanks man, I am going advocate the use of this one to my family members
and if necessary, force passwords.
I was wondering if I can disable users from changing their own passwords
(FC5 and XP)?
<snip>
> Good luck,
>
> Joe
>
Thanks Joe,
Guus.
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