Re: Root password strength

To: John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Root password strength
From: Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:09:31 +0100
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John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> wrote on 20/03/2024 at 17:02:41+0100:

> Use one of the password generating programs such as pwgen to produce a
> 12 character random password.  Write it down.

Most of the time, writing down a password is a very bad idea.

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PEB

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