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. > -- > Running Debian GNU/Linux > www.debian.org > www.gnu.org > www.cheapbytes.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null > -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http:/www.netcom.com/~kmself What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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