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From: Wallace
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:00
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When you change your password it requires you to use 4 out of 5 types of characters (small, caps, numbers, symbols, other), however, it does not check that this requirement is met within the first 8 characters-- all that the standard unix crypt() uses. In fact, this works on best's shell machines. When I changed my password today I tried 'qwerqwer', which triggers the lame password error. But using 'qwerqwer12!@Q' works. I immediately changed it by giving my Old Password: qwerqwer Shelly Wallace
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Subject: password validation?
Date: 1998/11/17
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