hairy
06-25-2008, 12:19 PM
When picking passwords, avoid the following:
* Your name, spouse’s name, or partner’s name.
* Your pet’s name or your child’s name.
* Names of close friends or coworkers.
* Names of your favorite fantasy characters.
* Your boss’s name.
* Anybody’s name.
* The name of the operating system you’re using.
* Information in the GECOS field of your passwd file entry
* The hostname of your computer.
* Your phone number or your license plate number.
* Any part of your social security number.
* Anybody’s birth date.
* Other information easily obtained about you (e.g., address, alma mater).
* Words such as wizard, guru, gandalf, boiler, Purdue, Pete and so on.
* Any username on the computer in any form (as is, capitalized, doubled, etc.)
* A word in the English dictionary or in a foreign dictionary.
* Place names or any proper nouns.
* Passwords of all the same letter.
* Simple patterns of letters on the keyboard, like qwerty.
* Any of the above spelled backwards.
* Any of the above followed or preceded by a single digit.
* Password examples that have been published anywhere, including the examples in this document.
/wave sergling
What part of Ohio btw?
* Your name, spouse’s name, or partner’s name.
* Your pet’s name or your child’s name.
* Names of close friends or coworkers.
* Names of your favorite fantasy characters.
* Your boss’s name.
* Anybody’s name.
* The name of the operating system you’re using.
* Information in the GECOS field of your passwd file entry
* The hostname of your computer.
* Your phone number or your license plate number.
* Any part of your social security number.
* Anybody’s birth date.
* Other information easily obtained about you (e.g., address, alma mater).
* Words such as wizard, guru, gandalf, boiler, Purdue, Pete and so on.
* Any username on the computer in any form (as is, capitalized, doubled, etc.)
* A word in the English dictionary or in a foreign dictionary.
* Place names or any proper nouns.
* Passwords of all the same letter.
* Simple patterns of letters on the keyboard, like qwerty.
* Any of the above spelled backwards.
* Any of the above followed or preceded by a single digit.
* Password examples that have been published anywhere, including the examples in this document.
/wave sergling
What part of Ohio btw?