Passwords

[Wongo]

Work: Novell Network, Payroll, Databases, Web server, Time cost system, intranet, remote access.
Personal: Forums, online banking

Help!!!!! :stars:

[DavidG]

Develop a base password and add a numeric that pertains only to the one thing.
Does not work for cards though so I leave the banking to the wife.:B

[RufflyRustic]

I feel your pain Wongo.

I have about 20 work passwords, plus all the personal passwords and pins.

Last week was a doozy, forgot one password to a system I really needed to access, not just one day, but three days running for three different systems!!!!!!!! :banghead:

[Howdya do that]

Not sure whick company writes it but there is a program with a very ingenius name "PASSWORD KEEPER":o

I have the same login for it as windows. That wai when I forget one It can be recalled.

[ptc]

Try Roboform

[Terry B]

I keep almost all of my passwords on my palm pilot in a programme called keyring. This is especially useful for rarely used passwords like frequent flyer ones.

[Ashore]

Try the first three letters of you wife's/ daughters/dad's etc name then add the month and year ie this month and year is 0407, then if you have to, change your password 1st of every month, or if you want to keep the same password still use the same three letters and add the month -year numbers for when you were married, but for those you would have to ask your misses I know I do:doh:

Rgds

[manoftalent]

this site has heaps of computer related stuff ......and whenever I download something from there, I have never had any probs ...its a clean site ... http://www.click-now.net/downloads07.htm

tip: never keep passwords or banking info or any other personal info on your machine, hackers these days can access it remotely and then your in deep do do .....go and buy an external harddrive and do your work in that, you could make a folder with all your passwords in one place then when done, unplug it from the power and usb port, and lock it up ......simple and safe ....and can also be set up to require user access key....so you only need to remember one key:2tsup:

[Barry_White]

Try this one been using it for years.

http://www.anypassword.com/

[Stuart]

Try RoboformBit too easy as a password if we all use that ;)

[Clinton1]

Do what everyone else does when you have too many passwords to remember... write them down in your diary. :doh:

[Wongo]

I just put a post-it under my keyboard.:cool:

[Waldo]

G'day,

The same password and username for everything, makes it simple. :2tsup:

Except for back when I thought I'd do different p/words then I stuffed up and couln't remember them. :doh:

[Wongo]

I keep my Novell password in my wallet and the not-so-important ones in a text file in my C drive.

Online banking comes with 3 components, a personal PIN (kept in my wallet), a password (in my mailbox) and one of those real time security ID thingy (name ??).

Novell is a pain. We need to change our password every month. And it remembers what I used 3 years ago.:doh: I don’t like using using the same password plus month number. I like to use a new one every time. Names are OK but the problem is I only have 1 wife and 2 daughters.:D

My passwords are usually woodwork related. Sad isn’t it?:B Just to name a few,

maloof, dewalt, silkyoak, danishoil, myrtle, veritas…. So if need a password to hack into my laptop you know what to do.:D

[DavidG]

Waldo
If the system allows it mix in the upper case of the numbers for month and year between a base password.
w)a$l)d&o

[Iain]

When I was working in the Public Serrvice with the feminist pinko's (social workers) I used 'death to the socialist left'.
They would never have dreamed of using that to get in anywhere:wink: :rolleyes:

[Wongo]

OK they have just added yet another password. This one comes up before the network login.

So I get another new user name and new password. Guess what is the length of the password.


6? no!

10? no!

15? No






20 characters.

Yes, 20 characters. I mean come on! Someone please hit me with a hammer.:o

[echnidna]

OK they have just added yet another password. This one comes up before the network login.

So I get another new user name and new password. Guess what is the length of the password.


6? no!

10? no!

15? No






20 characters.

Yes, 20 characters. I mean come on! Someone please hit me with a hammer.:o

easy to make a password with 20 letters

justhitmewithahammer

howzat!!

[Wongo]

That is amazing Bob.:2tsup:

[Daddles]

If you have to keep changing your password, use your latest wood working tool - your only challenge then is to keep buying new tools :D

Richard

[Wongo]

tritonworkcentre2000

:D

[Iain]

That's any oxymoron not a word, password or anything else credible:p

Or 'nomorerabbitsinchina'

[silentC]

I used to use things like:

qweqweqwe
asdasdasd
zxczxczxc

I can type them real fast with one hand, like tapping your fingers on the table.

You could use qweqweqweqweqweqweqw

[Wongo]

Sorry your new password contains too many repeated characters. Please try again.

[Barry_White]

What about qwertyuiopasdfghjklz

[Barry_White]

Or 1q2w3e4r5t6y7u8i9o0p

[silentC]

I like qwertyuiopasdfghjklz. You can do that by sliding your finger along the keys.

[Barry_White]

Only trouble they sometimes require a combination of letters and numbers.

[DavidG]

Only trouble they sometimes require a combination of letters and numbers.
And at least one symbol. :C

[AlexS]

What about qwertyuiopasdfghjklz

Your password has been in use for 1 hour. Please enter a new one.

[Gingermick]

I like to use a new one every time. Names are OK but the problem is I only have 1 wife and 2 daughters.

Anagrams

[echnidna]

or get a girlfriend or 2

[knucklehead]

Wongo have a try of keepass.
I have been using it for some time. Currently tally for mine is over 150 passwords and login details.
I keep a copy of the database on a USB drive and can then use it anywhere.
You can set up a single password to unlock the database or a physical requirement (IE. USB drive) or both.

There is a new verision on the horizon, it is has some very nice features but is currently in APLHA production. I have had good results with both.

http://keepass.info/

[Daddles]

I keep a copy of the database on a USB drive and can then use it anywhere.

"Sorry, you can not access USB drive until you enter password"

[ian]

forgot our logon password did we?

OK they have just added yet another password. This one comes up before the network login.

So I get another new user name and new password. Guess what is the length of the password.


6? no!

10? no!

15? No

20 characters.

Yes, 20 characters. I mean come on! Someone please hit me with a hammer.I can't see the point as these passwords are usually in the BIOS and are unique to each computer and not the corporate system so just write the bloody thing on the edge of the monitor.

Otherwise what's wrong with 12345678901234567890?
or
wongowongowongowongowongo1, and increment the numeral each time
or
if you want a strong password try ######$$$$$$&&&&&&01, etc

also badger your IT bods to syncronise all your work passwords to be the same as the network one
prior to my business going this way I used to use a pencil to write the less critical ones (i.e. those where I didn't care if someone else logged in as me) on the side of the computer.



ian

[jow104]

pallindromes could be useful if you have to change passwords often:((

[mixin]

I use a keyboard pattern for my work ones.

I started with:
<hold shift=""> !QA<release shift="">2ws<hold shift="">#ED

Which is simply: </hold></release></hold>(hold shift) 1qa (release shift) 2ws (hold shift) 3ed
<hold shift=""><release shift=""><hold shift="">
Then when it wanted a new one, I simply started it the next numeral down.


For my home ones, like ebay, this forum, hotmail etc, I use old numberplates of cars I used to own - a couple of them together so I end up with 11 or 12 letters & numbers in combo, and then I write in the notebook "VH SL/E + VL Calais" and I know which plates to type in and in which order.</hold></release></hold>

[jow104]

Mixin, when you get to my age its difficult remembering the present number plate then alone the one of 50 years ago.

Passwords after all are only signatures, and its a crime to copy a signature so it must be for anyone else to use your passords. Therefore institutions should not be allowed to state you cannot make a claim if you have written your own password down somewhere as a get out for fraudulent use by others,

Passwords are becoming a problem in modern life. It might pay shortly to be like me and have no assets.

[Iain]

pallindromes could be useful if you have to change passwords often:((

Why doesn't palindrome work backwards:? :? :rolleyes: :wink: :p
emordnilap, not even close:no:

[jow104]

Why doesn't palindrome work backwards:? :? :rolleyes: :wink: :p
emordnilap, not even close:no:

I explain that one to you next time we meet:D

[graemet]

I have some specialty software that requires a password. When I forgot it, I phoned my developer for help - can he recover my password? No, not a chance. Anyway, he's built in a password so that he can help out in just such emergency - "poor memory!":doh:
Cheers'
Graeme

[jow104]

I have just been reading on the Paypal terms and conditions an intructions on preventing identity fraud.
The instruction advises changing your password often with paypal!!!!!!!!!

So credit card and other systems should also carry this advice?

Looks to me, you have got to keep an index of passwords, because it would be impossible to keep track of all changes to your passwords.

This then makes nonsense of credit card companies stating you must not write pin numbers (read passwords) down.

So how can they enforce this rule on that senario?