On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:57:27PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > You might want to reconsider the project, frankly - why not make different > root passwords for different machines? That would seem to be a more secure > alternative. You can make them systematically different to save yourself > memorizing them all, by (for example) using the second letter of the > hostname as one of the characters of the root password or something along > those lines.
that's way more insecure, as the hypothetical hacker could then know
(or more easily guess) what one of the characters in the password is!
sean
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