begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:58:03PM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > Watch what happens in practice when those sorts of constraints are > > imposed. If losing the passphrase makes the hardware unavailable (and > > remember that "Available" is part of security these days) user *will* > > use post-its or sharpie-on-tape to associated the password with the > > laptop. > > That is perfectly fine! I *advocate* writing down passwords. In fact I > write my root passwords on post-its. It is better than choosing an > easily guessable password.
Do you stick the post-its to the laptop in question? (Sorry. That bit got deleted on the rewrite. Revision isn't _always_ good, alas.) [snip] -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
