[geeks] Mandatory password changes

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Mon Dec 11 22:17:01 CST 2006


>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2006/12/11 Mon PM 12:55:33 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Mandatory password changes

>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 @ 11:08 -0500, Joshua Boyd said:
>
>
>> One former employer would stroll around looking for postits on
>> monitors.  He would even flip mouse pads and keyboards to look for
>> postits there.  
>> 
>> That still doesn't help with the postit in the wallet or PDA problem.
>
>It also doesn't help with the post-its that have passwords on them that
>don't look at all like they have passwords on them.

In my youth, I used to put password hints in my .finger files, in case I ever got stuck - things like "same as always", "first dog", etc...

I don't do that any more ;^)

Lionel



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