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yeah, but if we could do that, we wouldn't have to work ever again. Because we'd be rich! People would be lining up to buy our sofware. I say a good price tag would be 1 million per copy. Or we could make it Open souce to free the masses from the chains of labour... B)

i'll have the beer ready.

once again, i'll have the beer ready.


they should be changed every month or more, if your parinod like me.

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I usually change my root passwords on my servers once every 3 - 4 months--I have never been compromised.. well not that way. I have been compromised once, from the old SSHv1 CRC32 root exploit--that was a quick fix, just had to pull out the backup drive and rsync my system back to normal (and kill SSHv1, replacing it with SSHv2).

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yeah, any password changing policy is a good one. As long as people change them on a regular time interval.

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Sounds like he was either incompetent or didn't favor his employer.


Now that's funny


I should probably change my passwords... its been a lonnnng time since I've changed them across my network at home. At work they are changed every 90 days.

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I have a friend that smoke way to much weed and can remember anything. He just uses different variations of JAM for passwords.

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Yup, weed will do that to you.

Just about every sysadmin i know has a god complex... so their passwords are god or some derivation of power.

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Most of mine are random characters that i think up on the spot. got about 15 different ones that i have to remember. It's tough some times.

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I ususally generate one 8 characters long with 2 of each categories in it. For example: b(G5&aL4 (two uppers, two lowers, two digits, two symbols).

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sarumont

As much as I hate being unsecure, I inevitably forget my passwords when I change them and don't use them a lot (i.e.: servers). Hell...I finally fixed my iBook (after about 5 months of brokendedness) and couldn't remember the root password...had to boot my LiveCD and use the chroot workaround.

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lol. sounds like you lucked out on that one... I had to use a Linux boot disk not to long ago to get into my win xp box.

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