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- From: imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh)
- Subject: Re: passwd security check
- Message-ID: <Brt8GH.Guz@solbourne.com>
- Organization: Solbourne, User Interface Group
- References: <1992Jul22.190827.30077@iitmax.iit.edu> <Brt2n3.GE9@solbourne.com> <14kib3INN18l@moe.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:45:53 GMT
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- In article <14kib3INN18l@moe.ksu.ksu.edu> rjq@phys.ksu.edu (Rob Quinn) writes:
- >In <Brt2n3.GE9@solbourne.com> imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh) writes:
- >]In article <1992Jul22.190827.30077@iitmax.iit.edu> technews@iitmax.iit.edu (Kevin Kadow) writes:
- >]>when 2 or more accounts have the same password, and other "holes" that would
- >]>not be found by crack?
- >]This is *NOT* a security hole.
- > It can be an indication that one person is using two or more accounts, which
- >could be a security issue for some systems.
-
- As long as it is *NOT* disclosed to the two accounts that have the
- same person, then I might agree with you. However, it is quite
- possible that two people indepently chose batman! (or r0bin!) as their
- password after seeing the same movie. I'm still not convinced that
- this is a real hole....
-
- Warner
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