[windows2000] Re: Why isn't everyone being forced to change their pass
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:29:28 +0200
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:32:07 -0700, Chris Berry wrote:
>> >My personal opinion is that monthly is way too frequent, I'd have to
>>write
>> >my password down, I'd always be forgetting it, which pretty much defeats
>>the
>> >whole purpose. My policy is three months for relatively easy passwords
>>or
>> >six months for hard ones.
>>
>>Our problem is not ppl writing up their passwords on notes that
>>they stick to the monitor, but easy passwords which can be
>>brute-force cracked.
>
>Try using MTR-3006 passwords then, they're easy to remember but not
>dictionary words. I use a program called Xyzzy to auto generate them, works
>like a charm.
I'll have a look. Thx.
>>The physical environment here is more or less
>>locked down, so the sticky-notes are not that much of a problem
>>really.
>
>A locked down university? How is that?
Not university - department.
We do drug research here, with some requisites on the physical
security. Mostly the access to lablogs and stuff.
Many precursorsors here are in the morphine-family. I guess you can
take it from there...? 8-)
BW,
Sorin
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