Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!richard From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: What should the password... Message-ID: <1469@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 18 Dec 89 16:51:27 GMT References: <4180@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1989Dec7.172233.10130@chinet.chi.il.us> <7284@ficc.uu.net> <10665@unix.UUCP> <7311@ficc.uu.net> <6602@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) Followup-To: misc.security Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 17 In article mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitchell..Wright) writes: >I have heard the argument that "It is too hard to remember X number of >passords". Well, it's not - you just have to set up a system for yourself. And there we have it. A fine argument against requiring users to have different passwords or change them often. Maybe your "system" is obscure enough. Well, I doubt it. But even if it is, what about the next user's? -- Richard PS this isn't a unix issue - I've redirected followups to comp.misc -- Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin