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Based on the tool described in this hint, how secure is your admin account's pasword?
1/1: Based on the tool described in this hint, how secure is your admin account's pasword?
Other polls | 711 votes | 6 comments
quick improvement
I boosted my score by an extra 10 points by including a single upper-case character, or by putting in a single symbol....
quick improvement
RobG posted my tip not long ago on how to generate long but memorable passwords:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040920120520528&query=password
The second method I describe is the best to use if you want an easy to type but very strong password. ---
Seems a little too forgiving
I use an awkwardly long passphrase for my admin account password and it appears that just by virtue of its length, the advisor gave me a score of 300.3. I doubt it is really that good.
Seems a little too forgiving
If you just type in a sentence, like "Now is the time for all good people" etc., you get a fantastic score as long as they are more than a few words long, no matter what the words. Typing "password:password" gives you a score of 100, but "password-password" only 22...
no choice but perfection
we're forced to have a 130+ password in college, or else we can't login, so all my passwords are like that
Spaces: yea or nay?
As noted in the discussion of the hint itself, including spaces in a passphrase (as well as non-ASCII-127 characters, such as those created with the option key modifier) can significantly improve one's "score". But is this a good idea for an admin passphrase? Apparently not in the most recent 10.3.5 update of OS X Server (see Apple support document #108026). The last time I could find Apple warn about this issue for the OS X client is with the 10.2.3 update (#107263).
So, who can confirm or deny that spaces (or option-modified keys) cause problems with either OS X or OS X Server admin passwords? (Personally, I'm in no position to risk screwing up my system for the public good, but in light of the comments of the original hint, others may have learned (the hard way)....) |
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