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- Subject: GNU accounts
- Cc: tami@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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- The Free Software Foundation's primary goal is to promote the creation
- and distribution of free software. To this end, it is currently engaged in
- a project to develop a free operating system which everyone can use as a
- base for developing even more free software.
-
- Guest accounts are granted to people who ask for them, for any
- constructive purpose. There are no fees required to obtain one.
-
- To obtain an account, please email the following information to
- ``request@gnu.ai.mit.edu'':
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- 1) Your real name
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- 2) Your street address (Office address is acceptable)
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- 3) A telephone number where you can be reached
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- 4) Your desired username
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- 5) Desired shell (we have sh, bash, csh, and tcsh).
-
- If you have no preference, the default shell is "bash", a Bourne
- shell derivative.
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- 6) An alternate email adress, if you have one.
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- In the event that you cannot use the username you requested
- (either because another account already exists by that name or
- it is in use as a mail alias), the easiest (and cheapest) way to
- get in contact with you is via email.
-
- 6) Password.
-
-
-
- Because of recent problems the FSF has experienced with some people
- determined to cause as much trouble as possible for us, we had to tighten
- security more than we wanted to. What we ask everyone to do now is select
- a password which is hard for an outsider to guess. Techniques for guessing
- passwords are well known and reasonably sophisticated, so it is inadvisable
- to choose a password composed of your initials, birthdate, a nickname, or the
- name of a friend. In addition, many words are commonly found on online
- dictionaries which makes it simple to write programs that try variations of
- words in the dictionary in order to guess passwords.
-
- The best sequence for a password is one which is 6 to 8 characters long
- and contains mixed upper and lower case along with numbers or punctuation.
- Mnemonics or acronyms make reasonably good passwords and are easy to
- remember.
-
- It is unfortunate that it's necessary to have passwords at all, but
- because it is, it helps to choose good passwords.
-
- Also, because internal security here is lax, it's best to mail the
- password already encrypted in passwd(5) format. You may be able to use the
- program included at the end of this message to generate such a password.
-
-
- If not, cleartext passwords will be accepted but it would be advisable to
- change the password as soon as possible when you first log in.
-
- Accounts may not be created right away. Work peripheral to the GNU
- project is performed by volunteers or the system administrator when time is
- available. Please be patient. Requests are never ignored.
-
- If you have any questions or comments, send mail to request@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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