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- From: larisa@tcville.edsg.hac.com (Larisa Stephan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: writing down root password (was Re: Disabling L1-A sequence?)
- Summary: "Surely You're Joking!"
- Message-ID: <24059@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:44:08 GMT
- References: <peter-121192125038@134.7.122.51>
- Sender: news@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM
- Reply-To: larisa@tcville.edgs.hac.com
- Organization: Hughes Aircraft EOS Electronics Lab
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- peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis) wrote:
- > The trick is not in locking it away, the trick lies in putting it in an
- > obvious place, but making sure that no one knows its a password. This
- > works really well for things like PINs, write them down as fphone numbers
- > and put them in your phone book. Another trick is to add 1 to each digit,
-
- Peter is lucky Richard Feynman does not have an account on his system.
- Readers of the physicist's autobiographies will remember his tales of
- breaking into other people's safes in the Manhattan Project, including the
- one where he found "pi=3.14159265" buried among some actual phone numbers
- on a secretary's phone list and immediately divined that this was the safe
- combination.
-
- Of course, that was in the good old days when people were smarter and
- security practices were dumber. ;-)
-
- -- Larisa
- larisa@tcville.edsg.hac.com
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