Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Password security
Message-ID: <535@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 88 18:20:59 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >One enhacement to security I have seen on mainframes running UNIX(tm) is
 >to have a "External Security Password" that is settable by the system
 >administrator.

This is, as I remember, present but @#!$%#@! undocumented in, at least,
later S5 releases, with the "dialup password" mechanism.