27 Feb
2015
27 Feb
'15
10:52 p.m.
On Friday 27 February 2015 17:27:32 Lisi Reisz wrote:
Me too, which is why I tend to write my own 20+ char passwords but containing
stuff I know so is easier to remember. I will not repeat any of them here
for obvious reasons not to mention I'd never be able to re-use such a potion
again. And it would tend to give the savvy crackers an insite into how my
mind might work, making their job about 10,000x easier.
Suffice to say that I am now locked out of the Nook Color I bought the Missus
2 years ago for Christmas, I set a password that must have been longer than
its buffer. Bad dog, no biscuit. :( And it cannot get online after the
initial session thru my wifi here, I suspect for the same reason. So she is
stuck using its builtin crossword generator, which by now has to have looped
thru its dictionary 3 or 4 times. But, it does keep her out of the bars so
we're both reasonably happy with that state of affairs. ;-)
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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On Friday 27 February 2015 18:57:01 Gene Heskett
wrote:
Love it Lisi, you are an endless source of pithy comments, something a well
run mailing list needs lots more of. ;-)
It's something I haven't had to do in 4+
years, feels a bit retrograde,
Well, I have never claimed ot be a Bright Young Thing, not even whne I
ought to have been a bright young thing. and
a different password will confound my usage on the other 4 machines here.
:-) I'll let someone else answer that. I use
$ pwgen -sy 10
Many would consider that too short, and I'm thinking of lengthening it.
But I'm a lousy typist. I'm afraid that I am a fatalist. If they are out
to get me, they'll get me. I just like to make them work a little harder.
;-) And do remember, because it seems often to be
relevant, you have NOT got a default Wheezy install. (You had issues
with that, remember? You found a one person bug!!)
Chuckle, I am a graduate, Summa Cum Laude, of the school that teaches how
to do that. I must have got stoned and missed it though, don't even
remember taking the course, but I am very very good at that.
What is the maximum length of a password in characters?