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| Newer page: | version 15 | Last edited on Sunday, December 19, 2004 5:59:08 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 14 | Last edited on Friday, October 22, 2004 11:05:10 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
@@ -1,15 +1,19 @@
-PerryLorier's prefered way of choosing passwords:
+PerryLorier's prefered and highly recommended
way of choosing passwords:
-<verbatim
>
-tr -dc ' -~'
< /dev/urandom | head -c 20
-</verbatim
>
+<pre
>
+< /dev/urandom tr -cd '~[:print:]'
| head -c 20 ''# every time you waste a cat, god kills a kitten''
+</pre
>
-(''every time you waste a cat, god kills a kitten'')
+His new password is <tt>_]}e9pgU5-u6_hr~[KF|*</tt>.
-Highly recommended for everybody.
+AristotlePagaltzis prefers slightly less cryptic passwords that are longer instead, which results in
-(His new password is
<tt
>_]}e9pgU5
-u6_hr~
[KF
|*
</tt
>).
+<verbatim
>
+#!/bin/sh
+< /dev/urandom tr
-cd '
[:alnum:]$!@_:=-'
| head -c "${1:-32}"
+echo
+
</verbatim
>
Another popular method is to take the first letter of each word in a line from a song (eg ''I want to ride my bicycle'' -> <tt>iw2rmb</tt>)
If none of these methods are to your liking, you can always set your password to <tt>gandalf</tt>. This is highly original, and noone is likely to think of it.
