Excellent post.
Posts Tagged: password
Strong (long) passwords
REMINDER: PASSHPHRASE SHOULD BE 24+ (42+) CHARACTERS LONG TO BE EQUIVALENT TO A 128 (256) BIT KEY. This xkcd comic brought forth a lot of discussion on the internet regarding how to choose your password. What I took away from it: it’s better to have really long passwords than to have short, complicated passwords. This… Read more »
Authentication in Apache
I wanted to restrict access to a directory on my web server. It’s quite easy by adding an Authentication directive in the site’s configuration file (in /etc/apache2/sites-available/; preferred) or in a .htaccess file in the directory itself. Create the user and password: htpasswd -c /path/to/my/specified/password/file user.name ## place file to a place that is not… Read more »