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Article #238Re: Problem with npasswd??
From: Tim Chown
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:06
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:06
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In <1992Jul28.035951.22683@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes: >Furthermore, there's no reason in principle that the crack 4.1 word >generation engine (which is excellent) can't be grafted into npasswd. >I keep hoping someone else will do the work for me. Why not just alter npasswd to force at least one upper case letter, one digit plus one non-alphanumeric? Such passwords can still be remembered reasonably easily and are very resistant to cracking programs. Tim
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!icdoc!sot-ecs!tjc From: tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,alt.security,comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Problem with npasswd?? Message-ID: <12396@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Date: 31 Jul 92 13:06:36 GMT References: <PCL.92Jul27140810@black.oxford.ac.uk> <1992Jul27.184324.14697@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Jul28.035951.22683@reed.edu> Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk Lines: 11 Nntp-Posting-Host: marr X-Phone: +44 703 593257