Re: Proactive password checkers

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From: Olaf Pors
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:08

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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.  I would very much
>like to use this type of program, but I know I have very impatient
>users out there that will not stand for long waits.  Are we talking
>seconds or minutes for these programs to run using an "acceptable"
>password?

  We run a modified version of npasswd (modifications have
nothing to do with speed).  There is a barely perceptible
delay before a password is either accepted or rejected.

Olaf Pors
Academic Computing Center
University of Virginia
op@Virginia.EDU

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