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Article #4277Re: password security
From: Sam Southard
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1988 18:22
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1988 18:22
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In article <5835@saturn.ucsc.edu>, haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (99700000) writes:
> 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.
Someone at your site probably modified /bin/passwd. I know of a Convex C1 with
the latest software releases from Convex (I think) and it does accept a
completely alphabetic password.
--
Sam Southard, Jr.
{sns@genghis.caltech.edu|sns@genghis.uucp|{backbone}!cit-vax!genghis!sns}
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