Formulas can be good, but they need to be fairly complicated to be good.
Group of servers gets assigned a "Magic word" Delimiter used IE: $ Date string, in a different format IE 17-Nov-1987 Filnstones$17-Nov-1987$ Would make for a pretty good password, but still one that you could remember. Keep the Magic word the same, change the date string every month. This is fairly complex and still manageable. Good luck, +__________________________________________+ "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and [Unix] BSD. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -Jeremy S. Anderson Kevin M. Flanagan C/S Planning Engineer III IT Systems Implementation Branch Banking & Trust 3261 Atlantic Ave Suite 116 Raleigh, NC 27604 919-716-6209 > -----Original Message----- > From: BY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 6:56 AM > To: MSWinNT Discussions > Subject: RE: password > > > Thanks Andrew. Hope I can find a good one. Which one do you use? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Andrew S. Bounds > Sent: Monday, 7 January 2002 10:53 PM > To: MSWinNT Discussions > Subject: RE: password > > Anything under seven characters can be cracked in a laughable > amount of time. The password should contain at least alpha > and numeric characters. You can increase the complexity of > the password by using symbols and upper or lower case. > > As far as formula, that would be a bad thing. There are a > couple random password generators available check your > favorite search engine. > > Enjoy, > > Andrew S. Bounds > > > -----Original Message----- > From: BY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 6:30 AM > To: MSWinNT Discussions > Subject: password > > > > Hi there, > > Is there a formula how to create a good administrator's > password? Each time I am setting up a new server, I am having > great difficulty to think of a good password. Any tips here > would be appreciated. > > Thank you. > > BY > > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
