On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:12:21PM +0200, Martin Schrvder wrote:
> On 2006-05-05 13:30:50 -0600, Bob Beck wrote:
> >     DON'T WRITE YOUR PASSWORD DOWN ANYWHERE!
> 
> Which is wrong. Schneier advices to writing them down and keeping
> them safe. You already can do that with your wallet, right?

Schneier is right a *lot*. But you have to think for yourself to make
the most of any advice, from anyone.

At one place I worked the root password was randomly generated, printed
on paper, sealed in an envelope and stored off-site. None of us admins
knew it. The president of the company didn't know it. That system worked
fine.

Personally I use a small number of fairly strong passwords and I don't
write them down anywhere. Using ssh-add on my personal boxen handles
pretty much every login for me, anyway. If I found myself having to deal
with 70+ passwords I'd try hard to make that number much lower.

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