Password Help

steve sfreilly at roadrunner.com
Sun Apr 13 17:02:16 UTC 2008


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
| Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>  said:
|
| [password should contain numbers]
|
|> I never heard of that requirement - very strange. Actually I use a
|> password without numbers and it workes.
|
| Best practice says one should include numbers and both upper and lower
| case letters for a strong password.  Mine also uses symbols from the
| number row, is a mnemonic and part of it reads correctly only backward.
|
| Cybe R. Wizard

I can understand paranoia in password selection in an enterprise (like
changing mine at work is forced every 30 days) or such but a pc at home
where one or two people is using it, thats just plain ridiculous no
matter what os your using.



- --
Steve Reilly

http://reillyblog.com


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFIAjyY1L48K811Km0RAkiiAJ97+cCBgTbe9V/rbGrzXT6Ga6zOoACfZrzj
4eyjbOe2V5kDkJkDSerbqoQ=
=kZu/
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list