Worm/Passwords

[Henry Spencer]

In article <22624 at beta.lanl.gov> ttp at beta.lanl.gov (T T Phillips) writes:
>> And after you generate this random "pasword", no human user will be able
>> to remember it. And so your users will write the "passwords" down, paste
>> them on their terminals, ...etc.
>
>... here at Los Alamos, we are given what seem to be random
>passwords annually.  You must protect your password as you do
>your badge.  My observation is that the engineers, scientists,
>secretaries and managers seem to be able to cope with the random
>passwords without significant problems.

This is unquestionably true when the environment is such that users can
be *ordered* to protect their passwords properly, with serious penalties
for violating such orders.  It doesn't work so well in looser environments.
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