Comments on: Password Policies Suck

By: The (C) Gentoo User

The (C) Gentoo User — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:42:22 +0000

Jason: You might conside using pwgen. Its generated passwords are easy to remember. G’luck.

By: Christophe Muller

Christophe Muller — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:55:04 +0000

Brilliant idea! I also think password policies are not a good idea, and they lead to incremental simple passwords, post-its etc. all sorts of bad side effects. As I’m also a big fan of “expect” !

I just love the idea ! will try it.

Cheers,
Christophe.

= Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. –Helen Keller =

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:36:32 +0000

Nice script! This might be cheating, but if you’re an admin for the boxes, after you change one you could grab the encrypted string from shadow and use usermod -p ‘encrypted_string’ username to chagne the rest. Although expect works well too.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:33:15 +0000

I do something similar , but instead of using random data, I have my script prompt me for a password. It’s just too painful to type in the random password every time I have to use sudo. It’s much easier to create a passphrase that I can remember in my head.

By: Christian R.

Christian R. — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:23:17 +0000

nice script – thanks!
It will safe a lot of time in my daily work!