On Sat, 14 May 2011 19:44:42 -0400, Tracy Reed <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 06:25:54PM -0500, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. spake
> thusly:
>> Manager commented the other day, that its interesting that most of root
>> password prefixes are about people leaving us. Found a server that
>> wasn't in
>
> What do you mean by "root password prefix"?
>
I ran into something like this before. The password is an acronym with
substitutions:
"Fred is no longer working here April 9th" = F1NLw#49
A useful way of generating secure-looking passwords that have to be
memorized by a bunch of people. I suspect the prefixes mentioned are
similar.
--
Law of Probable Dispersal:
Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
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