I've used a technique that's come to be known as "password haystacks" (see link below) which involves simply padding your good (or even written shoulder-surfable) password out to a reasonable length to make the brute-force cracking all the more complex. So say my password is "correct horse battery staple". I might take that and then add 8 periods at the end. Or 10 ampersands. Or alternate dash-equals-dash-equals as many times as you want. Or whatever secret character or characters you want and however many of them you want. It's also particularly handy if you have to change your password on a regular basis (I usually just change the haystack characters). Alternatively, if you use a GUI and "keepassx" is accessible in your screen-reader, it allows you to generate strong passwords, keep them safe behind one master password, keep them hidden from shoulder-surfing eyes, and will auto-type them into the last window you were in. This is the solution I use for most passwords (except my master passwords, for which I use the haystack method). -tim https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list