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From: rudolf@neptune.uucp (Jim Rudolf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Wanted: Password checking program info
Message-ID: <12005@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 9 Aug 89 02:50:52 GMT
References: <1210@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <2171@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> <12001@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: rudolf@oce.orst.edu (Jim Rudolf)
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Organization: College of Oceanography, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, Or.
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In article <12001@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> rudolf@oce.orst.edu (Jim Rudolf) writes:
>In article <2171@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> skilbane@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk writes:
>>>> [....]
>>>>   if (done==ENDOFFILE)
>>>>     puts("Sorry ... password not found in dict.\n");
>>> 
>>> I hope people have the good sense to use a non-dictionary password now that
>>> programs like this are floating around the net.
>
>I have apparently missed the entire thread discussing password checking
>programs!  Where might I catch such a program floating around the net?

Actually, what I meant was:  are there any versions/extensions of
passwd on the net that will let me keep users from typing in trivial
passwords?  Sorry 'bout any mixup.

Jim Rudolf

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