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Many sites now add security questions that you must answer when you first set up your account. There are several problems with these:
It’s a mess. gnu-pw-mgr
supports a ‘--confirm’ option
for answers to confirmation/security questions. Give that option a
word or two from the question, and it will print out a 12 character
sequence of alphabetic characters that are unique to the web site and
unique for the option argument. For example, in the
gnu-pw-mgr
program’s ‘base.test’ test, the confirmation
option arguments dog
and pet
produce the strings
xkzrraogchyh
and brrxsbesatfj
, respectively. These may
be answers to the questions, ‘what was your dog's name’ or
‘what was your favorite pet’, for example. These answers are
valid only for the ‘who’ password id and the test’s seed string.
With a different password id or seed, you would get a different answer.
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