How do I choose a secure password?

Posted April 2, 2014

Here are some tips for choosing a secure password:

Create a password that has eight or more characters. The longer the password the better.
Use a string of random words.
Add numbers and/or punctuation to your password.
Mix upper and lowercase
Use different passwords for different servers

Here’s an example, but please do not use it and choose your own ;-) house ge0rgE rOOf c@t

To make your servers even more secure, instead of using SSH keys, as described here:

Mac/UNIX home computers: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-use-ssh-keys-with-digitalocean-droplets

Windows home computers: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-use-ssh-keys-with-putty-on-digitalocean-droplets-windows-users

Regards, Will

Will Rowe

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alexdo • February 1, 2021

Hello, all

You can also use bash or sh or generate a random strings that you can use as secure randomly generated passwords as well.

You can check this blog post on dev.to website on how to this using BASH:

https://dev.to/alexgeorgiev17/bash-random-password-generator-4i2n

Regards, Alex

ryancarr10 • April 6, 2014

Its good that this was submitted but wouldn’t this also be better in the tutorial section as well? Just my 2 cents :)

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