"Use the wiki Luke"
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 22:01 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:54, Jim Cheetham wrote: > > On Apr 21, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > Andrew Errington wrote: > > >>>> I'm expecting the answer no. > > > > Correct answer. > > > > > I read a rather good article from some at Mickey$oft about security. > > > He suggested that you give up on the use of passwords altogether. > > > Instead you should use a passphrase. Easy for you to remember, but at > > > 30 or 40 characters, almost impossible to hack. > > > > It only extends the password space a little bit. Disable passwords for > > ssh, and only use DSA keys. That effectively extends the size of the > > "password" from a few bytes to just over 1kb. > > Could you point us to a write-up about how that's done please? > Thanks. > -- > C. S. > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
