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. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
