On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:11:53PM -0600, Brad Camroux wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 02:55:39PM -0600, Neil Bower wrote: > > Create about 3 or 4 different passwords. Then use password "a" for website > > logins where confidential info isn't a concern. Use password "b" for your > > personal login, use password "c" for root logins, etc. This way you only > > need to remember about 3 or 4 passwords and it becomes pretty obvious where > > you would use each. > > That's about what I was thinking of. Indeed, that's pretty much what I do. > Plus, I have them logged in a secret location as a hard copy, just in case I > ever > forget. >
I had already mentioned this to Mitchell off list, episode 139 had an 'interview' (rambling chat) with Security Monkey which was quite interesting. See: www.tllts.org. The question of multitudes of password, he suggested inventing a scheme to generation/remembering them. Passwords are generally a pain.... enforced changing of them is the 'devils work' ;-) Simon. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
