[CentOS] Another Fedora decision

[Keith Keller]

On 2015-02-03, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 01:53:45PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> 
>> The first is "Don't use a palindrome"
>> which makes me wonder if the author knows the meaning of this word.
>> I suspect he/she thinks it means "a known word backwards".
>
> That's what I would call it (or phrase or sequence of numbers.)  When I
> read your post, I thought I was missing something, but some cursory
> googling indicates that I'm right.  What am I missing here?

I don't think anybody is missing anything.  "Palindrome" in this context
may not be limited to real words; the author may be suggesting that you
not pick your password by picking a real word and tacking on its
reverse to make a palindrome, e.g., "password1drowssap".

--keith

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