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Don't use 1234 as your password

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Re: Don't use 1234 as your password

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Post by kondor6c »

jrockway wrote: post #23
dangrossman wrote: post #8

The very first time I tried Linux, after spending an entire day downloading Slackware, copying it to a set of install diskettes, partitioning a hard drive and installing it, I set my root password to "12345". I was around 10 at the time, 1995 plus or minus a year or two. After booting for the first time, I dialed up AOL and logged on to a Linux-topic IRC channel. I talked to the strangers there about how excited I wa…

Heh, I also destroyed my Linux system at about that age. "swapon /dev/hda". Oops.

Wouldn't you need to initialize the partition with 'mkswap'?

Re: Don't use 1234 as your password

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Post by dredmorbius »

dsl wrote: post #49
dredmorbius wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any way server-side to determine if a key is passwordless or not?

Not from the public key.

That's what I thought. It's always struck me as a limitation of the ssh auth approach. While I can't insist on a good password, I'd like to be able to insist upon password-protected keys (at least as a default -- exceptions for some system processes / activities).

Re: Don't use 1234 as your password

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Post by mikeash »

mhurron wrote: post #35
mikeash wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you still had access today, it would be a perfect platform for Bitcoin mining.

Did you not see those specs? Or is it that for some strange quirk of something my Iris is a great money making machine?

Just a joke about the great HN Bitcoin craze in general, and the occasional crazy schemes people come up with to turn small amounts of computing power into pointlessly small amounts of Bitcoin, like the recent JavaScript miner that you hide on your site and run on visitors' computers.

Re: Don't use 1234 as your password

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Post by kondor6c »

jrockway wrote: post #55
kondor6c wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't you need to initialize the partition with 'mkswap'?

Apparently not. Try it :)

sorry for the old post, but I did try it and it refuses to activate swap on a non-swap enabled device. Now I assume that you had done that a while back (judging from the hda device) so there are probably now some extra safety checks (good thing too!) :-D well I'm sorry for your loss long ago :-)

[root@localhost ~]# swapon /dev/sdb

swapon: /dev/sdb: read swap header failed: Invalid argument

*edited the formating

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