[ubuntu-za] Passwords - Bah humbug!

[Bill Cairns]

I have just tried it and I can change my password to a weak password using
passwd. It was obviously written by a mature 15 year old and does not want
to do my thinking for me.

I have nothing against using the command line and use it often because it
is quicker to do some things that way. My trouble is that my old brain
can't always remember what the command that I need is: especially when I
only use it every second year.

Anyway - thanks for the thought. Now I can throw away the stick-it on the
side of the monitor that told me what the password was. And seriously -
that is the problem with demanding long and difficult passwords - we are
almost forced to write them down because who can remember all of them. And
once they are written down, they may as well be "password" or "qwerty".
(Actually I liked the chap who changed his password to "incorrect" because
the computer would tell him "Your password is incorrect").

Bill


On 27 April 2014 14:46, Wesley Werner <wesley.werner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bill,  I feel the same about web sites that don't accept certain
> characters in passwords. O the irony.
>
> For interest sake,  did you use the interface for this?  The "passwd
> username" command may give you better results.
> On Apr 27, 2014 12:46 PM, "Bill Cairns" <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So I have my second computer running nicely on 14.04.
>>
>> I decide that I had better have a second user name on it - just in case I
>> break something.
>>
>> So I make a new user name.
>>
>> I try to set the password TO THE SAME PASSWORD AS THE ACCOUNT I ALREADY
>> HAVE!
>>
>> No - too weak.
>>
>> So I use the password that I use for all the silly accounts that insist I
>> have a strong password but which I really don't care if the world hacks
>> into. Every other password checker says "Strong".
>>
>> "Not good enough".
>>
>> Seriously - here is some 12 year old geek telling me that my password is
>> not good enough. 12? Mental maturity 8.
>>
>> If it is any business of those twits in Canonical - this computer is
>> never on line except when I am installing software. It has nothing worth
>> hacking into (unless you want a history of how not to install new operating
>> systems. If I want to open it to the world I will.
>>
>> AND IT IS NONE OF THEIR BLOODY BUSINESS!
>>
>> Sorry all. Had to get it off my chest.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> PS - I have loved Ubuntu for 8 years now. I now love Unity. But I hate
>> twits.
>>
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