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to: Judy Folkenberg
from: John Beamish
date: 2003-12-01 23:52:02
subject: Re: Passwords

From: "John Beamish" 

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Changing dates is a bad idea -- I know of one company whose password =
policy prohibits numeric increments (and the month name comes close to =
that).  If you do insist on going the route of basic word with =
"something" embedded and that's the part you're going to vary,
choose = rainbow colours (ROYGBIV:  red, orange, yellow, ...) or
"words of the = alphabet" (alpha, bravo, ...).
  "Judy Folkenberg"  wrote in message =
news:3FCC0D0E.E0A08840{at}mail.nlm.nih.gov...
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  Steve Ewing wrote:=20

    >>>Another way is to pick one good password and tack on the date:=20
    k1AAtuDEC03  and change the month/year each time you have to change =
it: in=20
    three months change it to k1AAtuMAR04.  And so on.=20
     =20
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  That's a good idea...I can keep the same word and change the date.  I =
like it.=20
  Judy=20
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Changing dates is a bad idea -- I know of one company whose =
password policy=20
prohibits numeric increments (and the month name comes close to =
that).  If=20
you do insist on going the route of basic word with "something"
embedded = and=20
that's the part you're going to vary, choose rainbow colours = (ROYGBIV: =20
red, orange, yellow, ...) or "words of the
alphabet" (alpha, = bravo,=20
...).
"Judy Folkenberg" <folkenj{at}mail.nlm.nih.gov>=">mailto:folkenj{at}mail.nlm.nih.gov">folkenj{at}mail.nlm.nih.gov>= wrote=20 in message news:3FCC0D0E.E0A08840{at}m= ail.nlm.nih.gov... =20 Steve Ewing wrote:=20 >>>Another way is to pick one good = password=20 and tack on the date: k1AAtuDEC03 and change the = month/year each=20 time you have to change it: in three months change it to=20 k1AAtuMAR04. And so on. ">http://www.qmss.com/~sewing"> That's a = good=20 idea...I can keep the same word and change the date. I like it.=20 Judy ------=_NextPart_000_0047_01C3B866.1E7B06E0-- --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5
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