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Remove the advices for the choice of a good password (they are debatable). Point to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength instead.

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2008-05-21 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
* man/passwd.1.xml: Remove the advices for the choice of a good
password (they are debatable). Point to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength instead.
2008-05-20 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
* NEWS, libmisc/salt.c (SHA_salt_size): Seed the RNG, and fix a

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</para>
<para>
Your password must be easily remembered so that you will not be forced
to write it on a piece of paper. This can be accomplished by
appending two small words together and separating each with a
special character or digit. For example, Pass%word.
</para>
<para>
Other methods of construction involve selecting an easily remembered
phrase from literature and selecting the first or last letter from
each word. An example of this is:
</para>
<itemizedlist mark='bullet'>
<listitem>
<para>Ask not for whom the bell tolls</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>which produces</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>An4wtbt</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
You may be reasonably sure few crackers will have included this in
their dictionaries. You should, however, select your own methods for
constructing passwords and not rely exclusively on the methods given
here.
You can find advices on how to choose a strong password on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength
</para>
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