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Password Security

The Password Security Checklist

7. Never share your password with . Tech support the safe if you can have the bank
anyone. seriously. . Cops manager open it up for you?
The very first thing you're going to . Your friend who is actually
want to do, if it wasn't part of your OS really cool 2. Create a Strong Possword
setup, is change the root password. o I judge Not just any password will do,
This should be self-evident, but can . Mom and the reason why relates to how
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be surprisingly overlooked during a Someone asking for it in passwords are cracked. lf a person
routine server setup. The password an email were trying to guess your password,
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should be at least 8 characters, using a Your boss they might try ten or so passwords
combination of upper and lowercase o Famous hacker Kevin Mitnick a minute, if they're fast. A computer
letters, numbers and symbols. You o Literally anyone can guess much, much faster. So how
should also set up a password policy Your password is what makes many permutations does it take to
that specifies aging, locking, history you accountable for the actions get your password? Here are three
and complexity requirements if you taken under your account. Socially key factors:
are going to use local accounts. ln engineering a password out of . Length. Each character
most cases you should disable the someone is often much easier than increases the complexity
root user entirely and create non- "hacking" their account. Most *ishing exponentially. This is why passwords
privileged user accounts with sudo schemes trick you into giving up your typically have a minimum
access for those who require elevated password in some way or another. requirement of 8 characters.
rights. Why go to the trouble of blowing . Character. sets. Each

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