Help me create a new password

CrazyRabbit · 04-11-2010 06:49PM #1

TLDR Summary
Got any suggestions for a new password? 8+ Characters with a number included, but not at start/end.

The "I don't have ADHD" version
(Rant bit)
The company I work for insists on using the archaic policy of forcing employees to change their passwords every 90 days, and not allowing the last 15 password iterations to be re-used.

The problem is...the average employee has about 10-15 passwords and I unfortunately have 47 due to my role.

Since it's practically impossible to remember that many passwords and since we're not allowed to write them down, I've gotten into the habit of using the same password for most of the applications/sytems.

(Request bit)
Well, the 90 days is up and I have to choose a new password, but I've run out of ideas for a nice easy-to-remember password.

So dear AH users, please help by offering some suggestions!!!
(Password must be at least 8 characters long and have a number in the middle, but not at the end(??))

Caliden · 04-11-2010 06:50PM

type it into notepad with your elbow.

/thread.

Mint Sauce · 04-11-2010 06:51PM

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

TLDR Summary
Got any suggestions for a new password? 8+ Characters with a number included, but not at start/end.

The "I don't have ADHD" version
(Rant bit)
The company I work for insists on using the archaic policy of forcing employees to change their passwords every 90 days, and not allowing the last 15 password iterations to be re-used.

The problem is...the average employee has about 10-15 passwords and I unfortunately have 47 due to my role.

Since it's practically impossible to remember that many passwords and since we're not allowed to write them down, I've gotten into the habit of using the same password for most of the applications/sytems.

(Request bit)
Well, the 90 days is up and I have to choose a new password, but I've run out of ideas for a nice easy-to-remember password.

So dear AH users, please help by offering some suggestions!!!
(Password must be at least 8 characters long and have a number in the middle, but not at the end(??))

What ever number your using now, just use the next number up.

January · 04-11-2010 06:51PM

Think that's bad, my company made us change our passwords every month. B*stards

Morlar · 04-11-2010 06:52PM

Caliden wrote: »

type it into notepad with your elbow.

/thread.

How do you magically hit that same elbow combination day after day after day ? Huh huh huh ? ? Seriously though that would work.

drunkmonkey · 04-11-2010 06:52PM

CrAzY0001 and so on and so forth, in 90 days change it to CrAzY0002, easy;)

fricatus · 04-11-2010 06:53PM

Y0reMa%*+

Conor108 · 04-11-2010 06:53PM

12345678
next 90 days -> 81234567
next 90 days -> 78123456

And so on.

Fringe · 04-11-2010 06:53PM

Come up with something memorable. eg banana. Then shift your hands to the right by 1 key so it will come up as nsmsms. It looks like gibberish but you'll remember it.

Caliden · 04-11-2010 06:53PM

Morlar wrote: »

How do you magically hit that same elbow combination day after day after day ? Huh huh huh ? ? Seriously though that would work.

You learn it off after you've typed it in. duhhhh

Mint Sauce · 04-11-2010 06:53PM

That last company i worked for it was every 30, 60, and 90 days. With a dozen or so passwords it was hard to keep up with them all.

orourkeda · 04-11-2010 06:54PM

urma as in Your Ma

Mint Sauce · 04-11-2010 06:56PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

CrAzY0001 and so on and so forth, in 90 days change it to CrAzY0002, easy;)

Conor108 wrote: »

12345678
next 90 days -> 81234567
next 90 days -> 78123456

And so on.

He cant have numbers at the beginning or end.

kincsem · 04-11-2010 07:11PM

YPLWKBSDM
ZQNPRDTSX
HGNMZTBFC
RNMYQFLPX

Just remove the vowels (AEIOU) from the alphabet, and random sort the consonants. Easy to remember too.

YumDeiseMum · 04-11-2010 07:13PM

Use the name of the month it is when you are changing your password

n0v3mb3r

or an important date that you will remember easily

march17th

AnonoBoy · 04-11-2010 07:25PM

Here's some hard to crack suggestions for you:

Gandalf
drowssap
pass123
password%
Letmein
CrazyRabbitisCool

airetam_storm · 04-11-2010 07:27PM

Use KeePass

Wiki wrote:

KeePass Password Safe is an open-source password management utility for Microsoft Windows, with unofficial ports for Linux, Mac OS X, and a variety of other systems.

If you use Linux or OSX use KeePassX

Saila · 04-11-2010 07:27PM

"Ive_been_f0cked"

MarkR · 04-11-2010 07:28PM

http://www.onlinepasswordgenerator.com/

Overheal · 04-11-2010 07:42PM

http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Command_authorization_code

Brian CivilEng · 04-11-2010 08:07PM

Think of your favourite song, let's say it is Barbie Girl by Aqua.

Sing the lyrics, and take the first letter from each word.

I'm a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie world. Life in plastic, it's fantastic.

Think of where it got to in the charts, so No. 1.

Your new password,

IaBGiaBwLipif1

KeithM89_old · 04-11-2010 08:09PM

Just mash your face on the keyboard and use whatever comes up - thats where my passwrord for boards came from

squod · 04-11-2010 08:13PM

As a rule I always use swear words. That way anyone looking over my shoulder gives themselves away as they giggle or gasp at what I just typed.

CrazyRabbit · 04-11-2010 08:24PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Here's some hard to crack suggestions for you:

Gandalf
drowssap
pass123
password%
Letmein
CrazyRabbitisCool

I'm pretty sure nobody would ever try the last suggestion.

opinion guy · 04-11-2010 08:25PM

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

The problem is...the average employee has about 10-15 passwords and I unfortunately have 47 due to my role.

47 passwords ?!?
Seriously who needs that many passwords ?

CrazyRabbit · 04-11-2010 08:28PM

abitofacomedian wrote: »

Think of your favourite song, let's say it is Barbie Girl by Aqua.

Sing the lyrics, and take the first letter from each word.

I'm a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie world. Life in plastic, it's fantastic.

Think of where it got to in the charts, so No. 1.

Your new password,

IaBGiaBwLipif1

Thanks for making me depressed by reminding me that such crap songs can still top the charts. Oh and I can't use numbers at the end.

Oh, and eek, I forgot that another 'policy' is that you can't use 3 consecutive letters used in the last 8 passwords. So I can't just change part of the password.

Thanks everyone for all for suggestions though. I have an idea or two now.

CrazyRabbit · 04-11-2010 08:38PM

opinion guy wrote: »

47 passwords ?!?
Seriously who needs that many passwords ?

Well I own/support 27 applications, so have Admin passwords for them.
Mail client (Lotus Notes)
Admin username/password for a few webpages I look after on our intranet.
IIP/LDAP authentication for 'common company applications' (Hate this one as the username is the full internet address and no application/website remembers it)
3 Windows logons (Laptop + Primary PC + Test PC)
8 passwords for remote desktop control of our development servers.
DB/2 schema access for reporting.
Electronic payslip.
Asset tracking tool Admin password.

And before long, I'll probably need one to use the toilets.

stoneill · 04-11-2010 08:39PM

just use random shapes contained in the keyboard.
the last three letters on each row going up and take the fourth letter in on top (in this case R) and go down heading left.

this will give a password mlprdx

first three letters up and 7th row down right
This gives zaqujm

and so on...

expand it to as may characters as needed.

opinion guy · 04-11-2010 08:42PM

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Well I own/support 27 applications, so have Admin passwords for them.
Mail client (Lotus Notes)
Admin username/password for a few webpages I look after on our intranet.
IIP/LDAP authentication for 'common company applications' (Hate this one as the username is the full internet address and no application/website remembers it)
3 Windows logons (Laptop + Primary PC + Test PC)
8 passwords for remote desktop control of our development servers.
DB/2 schema access for reporting.
Electronic payslip.
Asset tracking tool Admin password.

And before long, I'll probably need one to use the toilets.

Dude. Just get a new job:D

danniemcq · 04-11-2010 08:46PM

why don't you change all of them at once but use the same one then for all 47

Royal Irish · 04-11-2010 08:53PM

I had the same problem OP and I had a system were I would assign each thing I needed a password for a number. In my case it was 6, so it would be 123456, and for the first 90 days my password for 1 would be the name of a girl I slept with and the year she was born, so Sarah1984, and number 2 would be Mary1979, so on and so forth. After the 90 days, Sarah gets moved to number 2, and Mary gets moved to number 3, and number 6, Maryssister1982 gets moved to number 1.

Help me create a new password

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