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How to choose a good password

A practical approach for choosing a new passwords is to

 ssh login.coli.uni-saarland.de
 apg -a0 -MNLC -t -m10 -x10

Passwords generated this way will take on average approximately 64 years to be broken by a 8xTitan-X GPU cluster node.

Linux / MacOS

To change your password please log in with SecureShell (ssh) to 'login.coli.uni-saarland.de' and enter the command 'yppasswd'.

 ssh login.coli.uni-saarland.de
 passwd

Press CTRL-Alt-Del and select "Change Password". Windows passwords are independent from Linux / MacOS / Mail passwords.

Your email password is the same as your Linux / MacOS password.

A password should be

kept secret
changed on a regular basis
not be easy to guess by others (like your Matrikelnummer or 'klausi1' for instance)

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A practical approach for choosing a new passwords is to

{{{
 ssh login.coli.uni-saarland.de
 apg -a0 -MNLC -t -m10 -x10
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Passwords generated this way will take on average approximately 64 years to be broken by a 8xTitan-X GPU cluster node.
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== Easy way ==
{{{
 ssh login.coli.uni-saarland.de
 apg -a0 -MNLC -t -m10 -x10
}}}

Passwords generated this way will take on average approximately 64 years to be broken by a 8xTitan-X GPU cluster node.