Bug#998408: debian-installer: "good password" advise

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

On 11/3/21 20:30, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>    So my advise would be instead:
>
>    "A good password will not need rare characters, but rather be as long
>    as possible.  Having a memorable random password can help it be
>    longer, and therefore stronger."

Hmm, I'd reword this a bit, since that wording of mine makes it look 
like long memorable passwords are better than completely random ones, 
while they aren't.

"A good password will not need rare characters, but rather be as long
as possible.  If you can use a password manager, a completely random 
alphanumeric password is the best.  However, if you need to memorize it, 
it should be easy to memorize, relatively random, and very long."

Maybe too long of an advise; maybe it could be made shorter...

>    Or something similar.
>
> Sorry for the rant :-)
>
> Thanks,

Regards,

Alex


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