Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-29 Thread kmself
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 06:49:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:21:43AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: BTW, does anyone use MD5 for /etc/shadow? I'd like to use it, but how do migrate from crypt() to MD5? I don't think that just changing the entry in the config file

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 04:30:21PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 06:49:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:21:43AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: BTW, does anyone use MD5 for /etc/shadow? I'd like to use it, but how do migrate from crypt() to

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-28 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An easy trick for making a password that's hard to guess but easy to remember is to use the first letter of each word in the first line of a song you know well. Get pwgen package; it generates easy to remember (but hopefully difficult to guess)

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-28 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Ok, so who *else* is using talwkatgig? g I'd prefer to use tsrts.. Oki

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:21:43AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: BTW, does anyone use MD5 for /etc/shadow? I'd like to use it, but how do migrate from crypt() to MD5? I don't think that just changing the entry in the config file (/etc/login.conf?) would be sufficient. if your using slink changing

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-26 Thread kmself
What services are you running? A password doesn't have to be hard to remember or type. It should be hard to guess. You might try running a crack program such as John the Ripper (at Freshmeat). It will give you some idea of your own system's security. On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 05:47:23PM -0700,

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-26 Thread David Z. Maze
Erik Ryberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ER I have a home machine which I'm not too worried about security wise. If ER I don't go on-line as root, is a difficult to type and remember password ER really necessary? What do you mean by go on-line as root? If your machine is connected to a network you

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-26 Thread r3ck
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Hello, I have a home machine which I'm not too worried about security wise. If I don't go on-line as root, is a difficult to type and remember password really necessary? I think the time isn't that far away when everyone who wants to be online

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-26 Thread kmself
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 07:26:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Hello, I have a home machine which I'm not too worried about security wise. If I don't go on-line as root, is a difficult to type and remember password really necessary? I

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 07:26:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Course if you're a burnt-out 60's druggie then it's pretty easy to guess that the song is Stairway to Heaven :) Ok, so who