RyanBrothwell
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Microsoft is now banning your stupid passwords
Microsoft has started banning passwords it deems are "too easy-to-guess".
Microsoft has started banning passwords it deems are "too easy-to-guess".
Microsoft is now banning your stupid passwords
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PsychoFish
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I use the old BSD style passwords. Two unrelated words with a joining special character and number followed by a trailing number and special character combo.
Avantar
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That sounds a bit hardcore.
Only one word BSD style with a number and special characters. Enough for me. I've got LPCS (Limited password character syndrome) Relates to the same as not being able to count past 6. Not all have the brain capacity of the Fish to remember it all!
PsychoFish
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That sounds a bit hardcore.
Hahahaha, it's fun, cause you come up with passwords like :
Hobbit@7Kardashian69!
Working in Unix/Linux environments for years have made me used to passwords that consist of :
<word><char/number><char/number><word><char/number><char/number>
I usually explain it to people that have difficulty remembering *nix passwords (with my strong password requirements) to do something like:
<Verb><number><Noun><char> => Ate7Cookies!
The good old Dad joke makes for a nice default password Seven8Nine
There, you have a new secure password
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Avantar
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Hahahaha, it's fun, cause you come up with passwords like :
Hobbit@7Kardashian69!
Working in Unix/Linux environments for years have made me used to passwords that consist of :
<word><char/number><char/number><word><char/number><char/number>
I usually explain it to people that have difficulty remembering *nix passwords (with my strong password requirements) to do something like:
<Verb><number><Noun><char> => Ate7Cookies!
The good old Dad joke makes for a nice default password Seven8Nine
There, you have a new secure password
HaHa! Not too bad. It might work. I will never forget 7AteCookies3Times...wait Cookies8...got it Nine87 - Wait...I'll just make it One2Three
Just kidding - Eight is scared of 7 because 789 - I am sure a few people used it in interviews back in the day.
PsychoFish
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Yup, hence :
in /etc/pam.d/common-password :
password required pam_cracklib.so minlen=12 lcredit=4 ucredit=4 dcredit=2 ocredit=2 difok = 6
password required pam_unix.so md5 remember=12 use_authtok
touch /etc/security/opasswd
chown root:root /etc/security/opasswd
chmod 600 /etc/security/opasswd
and in /etc/login.defs:
PASS_MAX_DAYS 90
PASS_MIN_DAYS 0
PASS_WARN_AGE 7
PASS_MIN_LEN 12
also in crontab
59 23 * * * /usr/sbin/update-cracklib
Blazzok
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This article is now almost 3 years old (which I can barely believe myself) but it is most likely still relevant.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-youtube-are-fueling-the-next-frontier-of-password-cracking/
I have been using lastpass for quite a while now, so all my passwords look something like this: JE&B%m#Xs#23hQiU
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-youtube-are-fueling-the-next-frontier-of-password-cracking/
I have been using lastpass for quite a while now, so all my passwords look something like this: JE&B%m#Xs#23hQiU
PsychoFish
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Yuup, but you can't use lastpass for everything though.