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