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Article #4271Re: password security
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1988 05:01
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1988 05:01
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In article <5005@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>The simple solution seems to be to force users to use some non alpha
>character somewhere in the middle of their passwords. Users then tend
>to use a combination of two words which prevents the dictionary search.
the 4.3-tahoe-BSD version of passwd seems to do this. At least the last
time I logged into a tahoe system and tried to change my password it
wouldn't rest until I had put a non-alphabetic character into it.
Had the same experience on a Convex machine.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!saturn!ucscc.UCSC.EDU!haynes From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (99700000) Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: password security Message-ID: <5835@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 23 Dec 88 05:01:34 GMT References: <11013@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <2308@cuuxb.ATT.COM> <4420@xenna.Encore.COM> <259@gloom.UUCP> <5005@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Reply-To: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes) Organization: California State Home for the Weird Lines: 16