su - Authentication failure - reinstall fedora ?

[Tim]

On Sun, 2014-08-31 at 14:43 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> For now, longer is better. Diceware is recommending 6 word
> passphrases.

I prefer passphrases, too.  They're easier to remember, albeit harder to
type.  And a large proportion of computer users hate typing, or are just
plain crap at it.

I have to wonder at the need to go beyond about three words, though.
The chances of you guessing that I might have used "zoomgoldglasses"
instead of "bossisamoron" are pretty much infinite.  But I'm sure that
plenty of plonkers would actually use "onetwothree" as their passphrase.

Just reminded me of a hilarious gag I saw at the start of a tv program
last week.  A guy in an office is trying to send an email, but it's
asking for a code that he doesn't know.  His secretary offers him a
couple of suggestions that don't work.  So he folds up his laptop and
asks her to take his laptop downstairs for the recipient to read on his
laptop, and to get him to write a reply back on his laptop.  About three
scenes later, he's got four laptops on his desk, with all the replies
back from people who, also, can't get the office email system to work.
I'm sure that's actually happened in real life.

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tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp

Linux 3.15.10-201.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Wed Aug 27 21:33:30 UTC 2014 i686

All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying
to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists.

George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.