Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: password security Message-ID: <3627@phri.UUCP> Date: 7 Dec 88 14:20:23 GMT References: <17730@adm.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 15 ted@nmsu.edu writes: > The bank claimed that she had made 5 withdrawals in one day for virtually > the entire amount [$700] in the account The Citibank atms have limits on the number of cash withdrawals and the total amount of cash you can withdraw in one day. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it's something like 2 transactions a day for up to $500 total. It seems to me that any system which does not have a similar safeguard is lax about security. GOK what this has to do with unix wizards, though. -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"