Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: passwords Message-ID: <10595@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 19 Nov 88 22:34:48 GMT References: Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 19 This is interesting. You say that your users *hated* pronouncable but non-word passwords. Hmm.. But that's the only sort of password I ever have. (Example: Burple; don't worry, that password is a couple of years old and isn't in use anywhere.). Perhaps it's not just pronouncability that people want. At least for me, most of my passwords are sniglet type things, that is there usually is something which might mean something. After all, pronouncability isn't all there is to something being rememberable. Now, why is this discussion occuring in comp.protocols.tcp-ip/info-tcp-ip? And the similar discussions going on in other groups. We *need* to have comp.security, and gateway it into a mailing list for those who cannot receive news. -- <-- David Herron; an MMDF guy <-- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <-- <-- Controlled anarchy -- the essence of the net.