On Jun 29, 2007, at 1:26 AM, Marc Zeedar wrote:
>
> If you want *memorable* passwords, that is passwords that people can
> actually remember without having to write them down, the best system
> I've heard of is to use a password phrase. Like "The fat fox ran 3
> miles and died." Then you take the first letter of each word to make
> the password: Tffr3mad
>
Our Linux computers at work would reject Tffr3mad because it contains
a dictionary word. Also, we are required to use non-alphanumeric
characters in our password, so you'd have to put the period on the
end, add a comma or some such. One that I used recently for a
download had an exclamation point at the end. One of our systems
forces a password change every 46 days. It always seems to happen at
the end of the day on Friday, which means that you have to manage to
remember the new password over the weekend.
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Paul Dobbs
dobbsp at charter dot net
pauldobbs at mac dot com
http://webpages.charter.net/dobbsp
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Reality is the curse of the sane.
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