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=>... Say, anyone out there have any creative passwords?

Best one I saw (and used in my freshman year in college) was the one in 
that movie TRON - the main character (Bruce Boxleiter?) had an account 
that Flynn was using.  

The password was 'REINDEER_FLOTILLA'


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How about one of my old ones (taken from a very bad comedy):

	AtillaTheNun

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Yes, it's nosy to read password files -- but fun!  Did you ever read a
LOT of passwords?  Totally amazing!

If you know the names of the WIVES of every man in your department, you
probably know at least 40% of their passwords.

If you know the name of the hottest TV SHOW on at the time, or the names
of the lead characters therein, you probably know another 10%.  How many
passwords of "BART," "TWIN" or "PEAKS" are at your site??

Everything else is a color name, a team name, DAVE, PETE, or MARK.  :-)

Of course, security-conscious programmer dweebs pick more interesting
passwords.  But scan a big file of Joe User passwords some time!

Since this is true, some sites make a big deal out of forcing users to
select new passwords all the time, not allowing simple words, requiring
numbers and letters mixed, etc.  These are the BEST sites, because the
wonderfully unguessable passwords are then written on Post-It Notes
stuck to everyone's terminals.  :-)

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I like to use the scheme of thinking of some phrase, and using the first
letter of each word to form the password.

For example, here is a root password you *cannot* forget....

Phrase:  I Wish I Knew The Root Pass Word
Passwd:  iwiktrpw

(btw. I haven't used this one for some time)

Cheers,

Harry

In article <1861...@otter.hpl.hp.com>, hjb@otter (Harry Barman) writes:
| Phrase:  I Wish I Knew The Root Pass Word
| Passwd:  iwiktrpw

Two of our more creative recent root passwords were

rain2day  (this is Oregon, after all) and
0rangcr8  (orange crate)

Just another root guy,
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>Everything else is a color name, a team name, DAVE, PETE or MARK.  :-)

Or the name of the users PET
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tn...@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) wrote:
> If you know the names of the WIVES of every man in your department, you
> probably know at least 40% of their passwords.
> If you know the name of the hottest TV SHOW on at the time, or the names
> of the lead characters therein, you probably know another 10%.  How many
> passwords of "BART," "TWIN" or "PEAKS" are at your site??

A specialty in Britain is brands of beer (probably not applicable in a
country where everyone drinks the same stuff).  An ICL engineer told me
he could get into at least one account on most of the machines he dealt
with by trying a few names of local brews.

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