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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers New user Post 5870 by PxT on Friday 24th of August 2001 06:38:09 PM
Old 08-24-2001
Just choose a password that is not based on a dictionary word. This is easiest to do by including some punctuation in your password. Another good method is to take the first letter of each word in a sentence.

Example: Ufa$tB

Sentence I used: Unix Forums are Simply the Best.

I mixed it up a little more by using $ instead of S. You get the idea. Choosing a good password is one of the most important parts of your security infrastructure. Please choose your own sentence/password, don't just copy mine. Smilie
 

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lpasswd(1)						      General Commands Manual							lpasswd(1)

NAME
lpasswd - Change group or user password SYNOPSIS
lpasswd [OPTION]... [name] DESCRIPTION
Changes password of user or group name. If the name argument is not provided, username of the invoking user is used; the name argument is ignored if lpasswd is run set-uid to a different user. Entering an empty password (by pressing Enter) aborts the password setting operation. OPTIONS
-F, --plainpassword-fd=fd Read password from file descriptor fd, terminated by end of file, ' ' or ' '. -f, --password-fd=fd Read password hash from file descriptor fd, terminated by end of file, ' ' or ' '. -g, --group Change password of group name. By default the password of user name is changed. -i, --interactive Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration. -P, --plainpassword=password Set the password to password. Note that the password can be viewed while running lpasswd using tools such as ps(1). -p, --password=encrypted Set the password to the password represented by the hash encrypted. Note that the hash can be viewed while running lpasswd using tools such as ps(1). EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error. libuser Jan 12 2005 lpasswd(1)
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