11 thoughts on “I almost spit my coffee out when I seen the default name docker gave my container”

  1. For those that may be interested in what other combination of names you can get. Here is the list of adjectives and names Docker randomly assigns to containers.

    https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/pkg/namesgenerator/names-generator.go

    “Clifford Christopher Cocks – British mathematician and cryptographer employed by the GCHQ. Invented in 1973 an equivalent of what is now known as the RSA public-key cryptosystem (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman first publicly described RSA in 1978). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Cocks

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  2. At a previous company we had a password ‘suggester’. It was open source, and the word list included genitalia parts, deity names, city names.

    I’ll never forget when I got the password suggestion of “rape:clerk!incest”.

    I also got “spicy&manure*shape”.

    I filed a bug, but all they did was rot13 the suggested password, making it impossible to remember. They didn’t want to edit the open source PAM module that these words came from because LAZY.

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