Password Choices

David Dyer-Bennet ddb at ns.UUCP
Thu Jul 21 04:32:33 AEST 1988


In article <16562 at brl-adm.ARPA>, JPLILER at simtel20.arpa (John R. Pliler) writes:
> Why not use a *random* password generator?
  Random passwords are hard to remember.  If you inflict random passwords
on people, many of them will write them down or post them near their
terminal.  If you inflict many DIFFERENT random passwords on people who
must use multiple systems, they will CERTAINLY write them down.  
  There are probably sufficiently sensitive applications where a random
password changed daily is necessary, but these also require a special
class of dedicated user.



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