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No, eight characters, some capital letters and numbers is not a good password policy

bigtreeman

pwgen

my old fave is

$- pwgen -y 10

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gives a screen of ?random passwords to choose from.

Give users an idea of what a password could be, from the examples they might create a good password they can relate to.

When a user has to think of a password they can remember, they are severely limited by their lack of imagination. Further research might find the worst passwords in the least creative people ? accountants ? bosses ?

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