Re: Proactive password checkers

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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 04:39

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In article <1992Nov6.202148.1587@cs.sandia.gov> wllarso@sandia.gov (William L Larson) writes:
>How long does it take to proactivly check passwords using npasswd,
>passwd+, or Larry Wall's passwd Perl script.

We use npasswd and the overhead is imperceptible on a Sparcstation.
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Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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Subject: Re: Proactive password checkers
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