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 References: <4449@sneaky.TANDY.COM> <32582@bbn.COM> <4655@sneaky.TANDY.COM> <2349@cbnews.ATT.COM> Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Distribution: na Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 7 >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.