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Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?



What services are you running?

A password doesn't have to be hard to remember or type.  It should be
hard to guess.

You might try running a crack program such as John the Ripper
(at Freshmeat).  It will give you some idea of your own system's
security.

On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 05:47:23PM -0700, Erik Ryberg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a home machine which I'm not too worried about security wise.  If
> I don't go on-line as root, is a difficult to type and remember password
> really necessary?
> 
> Thanks.
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