[Gllug] I have forgotten my root password, I am a muppet.

[gllug at codex.net]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 tet at accucard.com wrote:

> No, not really. After 4 days, John The Ripper had still failed to crack
> my password on a PIII 950, at which point, I decided it was probably
> secure enough, and gave up. Brute force still isn't feasible, even on
> a standard Unix 8 character password, without a fairly hefty distributed
> attack. All you have to do is come up with a password that's suitably
> obscure that cracking programs can't make intelligent guesses. If they
> have to rely on brute force, then to all intents and purposes, you're
> safe (at least for now).


unless you have one of these....
http://www.eff.org/descracker

oh, and you use DES encrypted passwords

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