[ubuntu-za] Passwords - Bah humbug!

[Lee Sharp]

On 04/27/2014 09:23 AM, Bill Cairns wrote:

> 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").

I agree that you should be allowed to set you own password policy.  I am 
big on the CLI for user stuff because the GUI is so limited.  I am a big 
fan of "adduser" and "usermod -a -G" becaus just using the GUI to make 
an administrator does not add you to all of the administrator groups. 
(Check...  "more /etc/group | grep <firstuser>" to see what the first 
users is in and the second admin user is not...)

That said, keypassX is handy.  And cross platform.

			Lee