{"id":164,"date":"2024-12-08T22:18:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T04:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bblaze.xyz\/?p=164"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:06:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:06:46","slug":"about-usernames-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jb03.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/08\/about-usernames-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"About Usernames &amp; Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is not going to be a PhD dissertation on server security. Just a few tips that I have found helpful along the way. The bottom line is if you take security seriously you should never have any problems. If you don&#8217;t take security seriously you are guaranteed to have some problems. Consider yourself warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Passwords First<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve had good luck with this password generator website: <a href=\"https:\/\/passwordsgenerator.net\/\">https:\/\/passwordsgenerator.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adjust the settings to your liking, and it will give you a list something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"909\" height=\"705\" src=\"https:\/\/jb03.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/passwords.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jb03.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/passwords.png 909w, https:\/\/jb03.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/passwords-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/jb03.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/passwords-768x596.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 909px) 100vw, 909px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>What I tend to do is copy 10-15 passwords at a crack and place them in a Notepad file so I have them for easy reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty simple actually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Usernames\u2026 More Complicated<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Choosing usernames like &quot;admin&quot; or &quot;user&quot; or anything else that is incredibly basic and non-descriptive is probably asking for trouble. We will get into this in a little more detail in later posts but suffice it to say, if the name of your server is jb03.com\/ it&apos;s probably not a good idea to use &quot;bblaze&quot; as the administrative user login. See what I mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to have a whole bunch of different logins that you want to keep separate, you can use a list of things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fruits: apple, grape, banana, pear, cherry\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trees: maple, oak, ash, pine, willow\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Planets: Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Animals: cheetah, moose, squirrel, aardvark\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You get the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you really want to be serious about it, you can use the password generator to generate random usernames as well as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"811\" height=\"586\" src=\"https:\/\/jb03.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/username.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jb03.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/username.png 811w, https:\/\/jb03.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/username-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/jb03.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/username-768x555.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying this is required. I&#8217;m not even saying this is a brilliant idea. I&#8217;m throwing it out there is something you should be aware of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Usernames and passwords matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take them seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not going to be a PhD dissertation on server security. 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