Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!gatech!ulysses!smb From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: password aging (from worm discussion) Message-ID: <10895@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Date: 28 Nov 88 20:54:41 GMT References: <17648@adm.BRL.MIL> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 3 The advantage of password-hiding is that it prevents fishing for passwords. That is, it establishes a difference between trying to crack my password (which I hope you can't do) and trying to find *any* password on a system.