[G4] Passwords

[Perry The Cynic]

Nothing in the system remembers your old passwords. It would be a pretty 
bad idea to do so. In fact, most parts of the system don't even know your 
*current* password - it just knows how to recognize it when you type it.

If you want to put all your passwords into a "backup place," use the 
keychain facility. It can actually keep many of your passwords online right 
there (and Safari, Mail, etc. use them automatically). For strictly 
"backup" use, you may want to create a separate keychain file, stuff all 
your important secrets there, put the file on a USB disk or burn a CD-ROM 
with it (or both), and put it in a safe place. It's also a good idea to 
have a copy out of the house (leave it with a friend); remember that it's 
quite safe as long as your friend doesn't know the password you put on that 
keychain.

Naturally, you *don't* want to forget that password. Nobody can get it back 
for you. But since you don't actually use it for anything but your backup 
keychain, you don't have to change it a lot, and you can afford to make it 
long and intuitively obvious (to you :-).

Cheers
  -- perry


--On Friday, December 10, 2004 8:47 PM -0800 "Dennis B. Swaney" 
<romad at cncnet.com> wrote:

> Is there a way that I can find out what passwords I've used during
> various setups?
>
> Also, is there anywhere on Apple's website that lists the minimum
> requirements for the different passwords? Some require 5 characters,
> others 8.
>
> I just had to reset my Base Station because none of the passwords that I
> could remember worked. I'm going to try and standardize my passwords
> based on use:
> Mac OS, AirPort, etc. AND this time I'm going to put them in an
> Appleworks document so that I have a hard copy record.
> --
> Sincerely,
> Dennis B. Swaney
>
> "Windows is a command-line OS with a GUI shell while Mac System 10 is ...
> oh, never mind."
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Perry The Cynic                                             perry at cynic.org
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