[LINK] How to manage passwords?

[r.polanskis at uws.edu.au]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Geoff Muldoon wrote:

> Robin Whittle wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have suggestions for managing passwords?  Lets leave aside
> > the ideal practice of changing them regularly, and consider how to keep
> > reliable records of a plethora of passwords including for:
> >
> >   *nix root account.

I use a mnemonic for this one!  I have "memorised" over 80 root
passwds in a way that is transferable between sysadmins without actually
telling them what the passwd is.   All you need to know is 3 basic things
about the UNIX box in question and the format of the mnemonic.

rachel

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