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On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 17:59:47 +0100, "paul" <psutton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A good password is something you can easily remember but would be hard for others to guess, As I have been working with these accounts at work) Take the word hackers, it's too easy to spell, and guess, so play around with letters, e.g e becomes 3, and s becomes 5 so try hack3r5. or Linux could be lin1x. a mixture of letters and numbers is also nice so perhaps m0rgad2418 - this would have your name and 2418 - kernel 2.4.18 - or what ever kernel you are using it really depends on how accessable the system is to others, if it's your own system at home then you can probably cut corners, if it's a works system and you are sys admin then you need to use the above type passwords, length, and mixture of lower/upper case, and numbers. even throwin a few */+ type characters, A good firewall properly set up should also help, again even that will probably have a password, I think it also depends on if you system is always on the net or a dialup machine, the former needing more firewall / proxy protection perhaps. Any comments from other users helpful Paul From: "morgad" <morgad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 5:29 PM Subject: [LUG] debian install questionhi, have aquired a new machine to install debian on, using the woody dvd. problem: i am now sat at a login: prompt, but have not yet been asked to enter user details, or default root password ! any ideas ? dave morgan -- http://www.eclipse.co.uk/morgad/index.html UKRA#1243 SWARM#0029 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.
paul, that was not the problem turned out the default install would not work. (this login failure was at the first reboot, before i was asked to enter default password details !) when i changed to the bf2.4 install everything worked as expected. best regards dave morgan -- http://www.eclipse.co.uk/morgad/index.html UKRA#1243 SWARM#0029 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.