What services are you running? A password doesn't have to be hard to remember or type. It should be hard to guess.
You might try running a crack program such as John the Ripper
(at Freshmeat). It will give you some idea of your own system's
security.
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 05:47:23PM -0700, Erik Ryberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a home machine which I'm not too worried about security wise. If
> I don't go on-line as root, is a difficult to type and remember password
> really necessary?
>
> Thanks.
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