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- From: hdavies@rx.xerox.com (Hugh J.E. Davies)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: writing down root password (was Re: Dis
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.113105.2638@spectrum.xerox.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 11:31:05 GMT
- References: <24059@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
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- In article 24059@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM, larisa@tcville.edsg.hac.com (Larisa Stephan) writes:
- >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,
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- >Peter is lucky Richard Feynman does not have an account on his system.
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- >-- Larisa
- >larisa@tcville.edsg.hac.com
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- Hardly. He's dead.
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- Regards,
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- Hugh.
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