Passwords, Phoenix Accounts

Tom Kelliher, CS 102

Mar. 30, 2001

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Assignment

Web Style Guide online reading --- see course home page reading assignment for Mar. 30.

From Last Time

FrontPage exercises.

Outline

1. Phoenix accounts and passwords.

2. Phoenix demonstrations.

3. Practice.

4. Quiz.

Coming Up

Web page design principles.

Phoenix Accounts and Passwords

Your phoenix account slip ( don't lose!) contains three things:

1. Your name.

2. Your user (account) name. (Same as Goucher account?)

3. Your password. Six letters followed by two numbers and/or punctuation characters. Case sensitive.

Your phoenix URL (location) for publishing or browsing will look like:

http://phoenix.goucher.edu/~username/

Passwords

1. Passwords are important --- The (account, password) combination is an identity in the online world. Consequences: damage to your files, damage to the system, responsibility for criminal actions launched from your account.

2. People have written programs which guess passwords. These programs are very good.

3. Bad choices for passwords:
   1. Any word in any dictionary, or any prefix, suffix, reversal, etc. of such a word. Also, any concatenation of two or more such words.

   2. Any personal information. For example: social security number, names of relatives, friends, significant others. Names of pets. Make, model, license plate number of a vehicle. You get the idea.

   3. Any password that someone has suggested to you or that you've seen written down.

   4. Any sequence of adjacent keys on the keyboard. For example, ``Qwerty''.

4. A good password will:
   1. Contain a mix of upper-case and lower-case letters.

   2. Contain punctuation characters and/or numerals.

   3. Be as long as possible, at least eight characters.

   4. Be easy to remember. Mnemonics assist greatly in this process.

5. Mnemonic passwords: HtG,tmh!

6. Concatenated, ``misspelled'' words: Byg;Tyn!

Phoenix Demonstrations

1. The difference between a G: drive site and your phoenix site.

2. Publishing a G: drive site to phoenix (in FrontPage book).

3. Opening phoenix site and:
   1. Changing password.

   2. Creating a new page.

   3. Inserting images or background image.

   4. Saving a page with ``embedded'' images.

Practice Lab

Create a site with two pages, linked to each other, a bit of text, and a couple images. Publish it or create directly on phoenix.