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Fun trick: If somebody is watching you type in your login password or SSH pubkey password, spaz wildly on the keyboard, frantically typing random characters, an
by spudlyo 10y ago
Fun trick: If somebody is watching you type in your login password or SSH pubkey password, spaz wildly on the keyboard, frantically typing random characters, and then hit ^U and type in your real password.
Then you give them a puzzled look once you successfully log in as if nothing out of the ordinary just happened and say something like "What, don't you have a sufficiently complex password?".
- Practicality 10y agoI would like to recommend against spazing wildly at work. Edit: It was just a joke :(
- vacri 10y agoAs long as you don't hit space you can do the same thing with ^W, as ^W will clear out the last 'word'. I use it all the time at password prompts, and more comfortable to hit than ^U.
- andromeduck 10y agoIt's easier if you switch Ctrl and Caps because they n it just looks like you're just using the shift key.
- pritambaral 10y ago> "What, don't you have a sufficiently complex password?" <anecdote> I actually had a sufficiently complex password, but this one time I was in a massive hurry to demo something to my teammates, I made a mistake somewhere near the end of it, quickly typed ^U, fed it all over again, made another mistake near the end, another quick ^U, and third time was the charm. They didn't notice that I reset the password field twice, to them it was just a mega-super-duper-long password (the actual password is 20+ characters), and one of them burst out saying, "Woah! He just wrote a short story!" </anecdote>