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Re: sync root passwords?



On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:57:27PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> You might want to reconsider the project, frankly - why not make different
> root passwords for different machines? That would seem to be a more secure
> alternative. You can make them systematically different to save yourself
> memorizing them all, by (for example) using the second letter of the
> hostname as one of the characters of the root password or something along
> those lines.

that's way more insecure, as the hypothetical hacker could then know
(or more easily guess) what one of the characters in the password is!  


	sean

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