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From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: (In)security of passwords
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Date: 10 Apr 91 00:47:53 GMT
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In article <1991Apr1.182558.9014@SanDiego.NCR.COM>, davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) writes:
<
<One major 'human' problems with expiring of passwords: The imperfect human
<memory. Here at work I have various accounts on various systems requiring
<about half a dozen different passwords.

Use parts of the machines' names in your password.  For instance, on
`booboo', use `boxxxxxx'; on Prodigy, use `prxxxxxx' (where `xxxxxx' represents
a good password).

					--Scott

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