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Generate strong yet memorable passwords
I noticed recently, after fudging my root password half-way through and just hitting ENTER for another try, that when using `su` in OSX only 8 characters of your password are required for changing users. This deeply disturbs me, as most of my password are 20 chars or longer.
Generate strong yet memorable passwords
$o#he#-$u%#in& heck! This is correct; only the first 8 characters of my 17-character root password are necessary when I use su to become the root user. This is not good! A unix sysadmin friend of mine says that this is a known problem amongst some Unixes, although it's not as common now as it was a couple of years ago.
More then 8 characters
As noted, this is a UNIX failing. However, Panther took care of this failing in Jaguar (and pre-jaguar). If you're running Panther (and upgraded from Panther), all you have to do is change your current password(s) and you will forever be free of the 8 character limit. The limit in Panther is significantly higher. |
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