Geeky Cat Miusings

I recently had to deal with a multitude of new passwords: to my hosting service, for ftping to my host, to my database, to my blog, to my photo gallery, to some forums, etc. Keeping track of all these passwords is problematic and vexing. Wordpress provides a system generated password for the administrator when installed, one that is not easy to remember but also difficult for a hacker to guess. I could not remember the password so I wrote it down but I thought it would be better if I created a new, more personal password, but still following a set of rules for creating a good password: mixing upper and lower alphabets with numbers and special characters, and not using dictionary words. I don’t like to have one password for everything because I think that is a security risk; for one thing not all sites use encryption. Also, work policy requires users to change their password every 45 days. So later I try to login to my blog and could not because of invalid password. I tried all my passwords, none worked. I tried the reset password link. It did not work. Obviously I was able to correct the situation. How? I logged in to the database and entered a sql statement to reset the password. It worked.

And so I continue with my sleepless nights, reciting passwords to comit them to memory.

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