ARTICLE INFO These days security is one of the major factors associated with sensitive information, to access sensitive information we mostly use text password. But entering text password may lead us to lose control of our password by key logger or shoulder surfing. Shoulder Surfing is a process carried out by a person where he can note user's password by observing his or her shoulder movements. They can be captured by any recording devices such as camera and the recorded video can be used to

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... alyze the shoulder movements. To solve this problem graphical password method is invented. Graphical Password method allows user to select his password graphically without entering the actual password. Hence we are proposing an improved version of shoulder surfing resistant authentication system and password recovery with user file system. In improved version we are adding three layers, first layer is of graphical password authentication, second layer is of personal pin authentication and third is of password recovery by email if the user fails to login in the first two layers. Thus the user file system will have robust authentication where this kind of attack can be prevented.