on the subject of choosing passwords, it's good to choose a password based on song lyrics, making an acronym with them. hmb0!t (hit me baby one last time) bad example, good policy. =] Björn Persson said: > Ian Pilcher wrote: > >> I am trying to set up an account for my girlfriend on my FC1 box, and >> I can already tell that the default password policy is going to drive >> her insane. (I've previously just gotten around it by su'ing to root >> and setting my passwords manually, but this won't work for her.) >> >> How can I configure the password checking policy to be a little less >> stringent? > > These days everyone needs to know how to make passwords. It might not be > so important on your home computer, but if your girlfriend can't choose > a good password there, then she'll choose bad passwords at work and > other places too, which will make her a security risk. I bet she > wouldn't want to be a security risk. > > A method I like is to make up a grammatically correct but totally absurd > sentence. The absurdity makes it both easy to remember and very > difficult to guess. For example take a historical person, like Napoleon, > give him a modern gadget, say a DVD burner, and let the gadget do or be > something that only humans can, like cartooning. Take the first letter > in each word or turn them into digits where possible, and keep any > special characters. The sentence "Napoleon Bonaparte's DVD burner is a > cartoonist." might become the password "NB'sDbi1c." When I get to choose > my passwords myself and use this method I find it nearly impossible to > forget them. > > Björn Persson > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -+(duncan brown -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot
