Re: Proactive password checkers

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From: Randy Carpenter
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 17:28

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barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:

>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.
>-- 
>Barry Margolin
>System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
>
>barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar

We use the ndbm(1) feature of both passwd+ and npasswd with SGI's IRIX 4.0  
and have favorable performance.

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Subject: Re: Proactive password checkers
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