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!PASSWD.TXT
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Passwords are required in 3 or 4 places in the DIS environment:

1.  Your Demon login account password at the Demon Network 
    Operations Centre.

2.  Your Demon login account password in the dialer file 
    (~/dialer by default).

3.  Passwords for FTP and Telnet access in ~/ftpusers.

4.  Your Demon POP3 password (if you have a POP3 account).


To change your account password at Demon, use the command
'telnet password.demon.co.uk'. After changing it, you will then
need to edit the dialer file so that it contains the same new
password before you next attempt to login.

N.B. Your Demon account password is case-sensitive.

Passwords in ~/ftpusers are described in the "DISview" file
!FTPUSER.TXT.



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Choice of Passwords
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The usual suggestions apply for the choice of suitable passwords;
no ordinary words, no well-known personalities or nicknames etc. 

The use of a "first-character" password is recommended. That is,
think of a simple sentence of 7 or 8 words, then take the first
character of each word to create the password.

For example, if the sentence is "Our 2 cats are called Holly and
Mulberry", then the password becomes "O2cacHaM".

The sentence is very easy to remember (if you happen to have two 
cats called Holly and Mulberry :-), you don't have to write the 
password down, and it is virtually uncrackable.