Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:58 PM, Tracy R Reed wrote:
Stewart Stremler wrote:
Um, no.
Um, yes.
Um, what's the disagreement over? :P
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.
I, personally, would be sure to have that passphrase stored in at least
two other locations aside from my head, if it's something I wasn't
likely to remember.
However, if it's something I need to use every time I power the system
on or log in, I'll be using it on the order of at least once or twice a
day, and, at that rate, won't need any post-it reminders after the
second day.
Hopefully my mind won't deteriorate. :)
I use <only_in_my_head_part_of_password>+not_so_secret_part_of_password.
I keep a list of the not_so_secret parts of my various passwords.
Because the only_in_my_head part is used as a prefix for every password,
I don't have any problem remembering it. Because there are many
not_so_secret parts, I often need to look those up in the cases of the
ones I don't use often.
Even if someone finds my list, it'll do them no good because any given
entry is only part of the password. The other part exists only in my head.
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