Hi,
What about using an app such as Keepass to store your passwords? That way
you can have as secure a password as you wish and no need to remember it.
I suppose the downside is.... How secure is your keepass? You can use an
arbitrary encryption file in addition to a password for your database.
Just musings...
cheers,
Craig
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Smithies
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 10:28 AM
To: Canterbury Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Linux-users] Brute forcing an ssh server
Hi,
On 22/05/11 20:34, Nick Rout wrote:
>
> Reporting back with success!
>
> to recap, I have a globalscale guruserver plus for which I could not
> remember the root password, making it rather difficult to make some
> software mods and updates.
the issue this whole sorry saga raises is one of passwords, and
password protection...
On the firewall boxes, a bit of paper and sellotape with the root
password written down
is a good thing. Even, write the password down with some jumbling
algorithm to make it
less obvious..
No doubt, some would say, "but that is insecure".. If they have physical
access, then it
is all over anyhow - and they will be grabbing things that can be easily
sold, and not
bothering with little boxes.
Cheers,
Derek.
--
Derek J Smithies Ph.D.
Christchurch,
New Zealand
-- "How did you make it work??" "the usual, got everything right"
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