Worm/Passwords

T T Phillips ttp at beta.lanl.gov
Sat Nov 19 04:48:30 AEST 1988


> And after you generate this random "pasword", no human user will be able
> to remember it. And so your users will write the "passwords" down, paste
> them on their terminals, ...etc.

I don't know about other government installations installations,
but here at Los Alamos, we are given what seem to be random
passwords annually.  You must protect your password as you do
your badge.  My observation is that the engineers, scientists,
secretaries and managers seem to be able to cope with the random
passwords without significant problems.



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