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...right. What am I missing here? I don't think anybody is missing anything. "Palindrome" in this context may not be limited to real words; the author may be suggesting that you not pick your password by picking a real word and tacking on its reverse to make a palindrome, e.g., "password1drowssap". --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us

...t;> I don't think anybody is missing anything. "Palindrome" in this context >> may not be limited to real words; the author may be suggesting that you >> not pick your password by picking a real word and tacking on its >> reverse to make a palindrome, e.g., "password1drowssap". >> > > Ah, that makes sense then, thanks. I think the intent is: "Don't use a password likely to be included in the list that an attacker would try". Of course if services would rate-limit the failures by default or at least warn you about repeated failures and the...

...g here? > > I don't think anybody is missing anything. "Palindrome" in this context > may not be limited to real words; the author may be suggesting that you > not pick your password by picking a real word and tacking on its > reverse to make a palindrome, e.g., "password1drowssap". > Ah, that makes sense then, thanks. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6

...anybody is missing anything. "Palindrome" in this >>> context >>> may not be limited to real words; the author may be suggesting that you >>> not pick your password by picking a real word and tacking on its >>> reverse to make a palindrome, e.g., "password1drowssap". >>> >> >> Ah, that makes sense then, thanks. > > I think the intent is: "Don't use a password likely to be included in > the list that an attacker would try". Of course if services would > rate-limit the failures Which sysadmins do for ages whe...

Warren Young wrote: > The new rules are: > > 1. At least 8 characters. > > 2. Nothing that violates the pwquality rules: > > http://linux.die.net/man/8/pam_pwquality The 7 rules listed in this URL seem utterly bizarre to me. The first is "Don't use a palindrome" which makes me wonder if the author knows the meaning of this word. I suspect he/she thinks