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Is there any good solution to choosing the admin password? I always hear a strong password is recommended, but this becomes very annoying very fast since you ha
by sarsway 5y ago
Is there any good solution to choosing the admin password? I always hear a strong password is recommended, but this becomes very annoying very fast since you have to type it in quite often, and password managers can't help you here.
- bayindirh 5y agomangle a longish sentence in your head and pepper it with typos, punctuation and numbers. e.g.: h0arseSt@br3bg#terYC0rt5d!t
- calmaro34 5y agofunnily enough now h0arseSt@br3bg#terYC0rt5d!t is a terrible password to use ;)
- Toutouxc 5y agoThat's the worst way to create passwords. It's too chaotic, which makes it hard to remember, which forces the user to save it in a password manager (or worse, write it down). And since it's going into the password manager, you can just go full random.
- bayindirh 5y ago> That's the worst way to create passwords. That's one way to look to it, but I remember a lot of passwords created this way, and know a lot of sysadmins who create passwords this way. Sometimes full-random + password manager is better, but sometimes something convoluted + brain & offline backups is better. Perhaps being a sysadmin for so long deformed our brains to remember these types of stuff.
- stevewillows 5y agolyrics with spaces work well. e.g. 'God only knows what I'd be without you'
- comboy 5y agoThis is a terrible advice. Especially using lyrics. If you like typing sentences use some unlikely ones, preferably personal because people suck at coming up with random stuff. If you just throw some random thing in these lyrics like "God only knows WOOP i'd be without you" it would make it much stronger, but lyrics are like the thing where you would start building your brute forcer from and also.. how private are you about music that you listen to? I openly broadcast it.
- stevewillows 5y agoI got this from samyk, actually. I wouldn't use iconic lyrics like this and you don't have to use a full line or even a natural ending. You don't even have to use lyrics from a band you particularly enjoy -- just something longer and easier to remember.
- tokamak-teapot 5y agoFor sudo you can use the fingerprint reader if you configure pam to allow it
- Ashanmaril 5y agoThe most strong password is p@ssw0rd, I use that one for everything
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- rurp 5y agoI like diceware passwords, a random set of common words, for this, often with a few random characters thrown in. It's still long, but I find them to be faster to type and memorize than random characters.
- ryankrage77 5y agoI use this bash one-liner < /dev/urandom tr -cd "[:print:]" | tr -d '[]<>(),~.\;\: \\/\`\|\{\}\'\"\' | head -c 8; echo Generates 8 random characters excluding punctuation that is often not allowed in passwords. You can change `head -c 8` to the desired length of the password. If you get something difficult to type, just generate another one.
- pmw 5y agoI built https://phrase.shop https://phrase.shop for creating secure yet memorable passphrases.
- Toutouxc 5y agoThe second thing this generated was "centersuchstrongdefine". I imagined a football pitch with a really thick half-way line, and Doge (the shiba inu meme) admiring it like "wow, center such strong define" and I chuckled. Could've been a nice password.
- wishinghand 5y agoWould a thumb print reader be viable in this case? Can those provide arbitrary strings? I'd still store the password in a manager in case that device breaks.