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From: steve@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Stephen Wolff)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: passwords
Message-ID: <8811141138.aa08902@note.nsf.gov>
Date: 14 Nov 88 16:38:10 GMT
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>  I stongly encourage everyone to use such a password generator
>  and not allow people to generate their own passwords.

Password generators may be ok, but the paswords they generate suffer
from a dreadful sameness, and when you're trying to maintain accounts on
a dozen or more machines without writing anything down...

I strongly urge system administrators to publicize **and enforce**
their rules for choosing passwords, and let folks pick their own.

-s