On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 13:03:27 -0600
Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro(a)gnome.org> wrote:
On Sun, 2016-11-20 at 18:30 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
> Opening that every six months to copy and paste the password is one
> thing but I'm not going to be doing that every day/week, so
> realistically that's going to mean switching to a much simpler
> password
> that I can remember.
Yup, if I have to type my password then I'm going to set it to
something short and memorable, same as everybody else. The more often
you require users to input a password, the less secure the system will
be.
I have no idea how this fancy Kerberos works or integrates with GNOME,
but the above is a truism that stands the test of time.
One question: So, 6 months is long enough for you to use a longer
passphrase, but 1 week is not. Where is the line?
and Two suggestions:
1. Use a password manager? I recommend 'pass' it's quite simple, uses
gpg and files in a git repo. Then you fas password is just a 'pass -c
fas' away.
2. Use a passphrase you can remember. Isn't:
My FAS password is long, but I can always, always remember it.!
easier to remember than some
jkas63opqp
string?
kevin