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- From: system_jb@ACCESS.NSWC.NAVY.MIL ("SYSTEM SUPPORT")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: PASSWORDS & SCHEMES
- Message-ID: <9301080108.AA09231@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 21:15:00 GMT
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- We have a problem with users here in that they tend to write passwords down.
- "That's bad." Many users have several accounts on different systems and
- therefore must remember several passwords. For security purposes, we generate
- the passwords and they look like some foreign encryption code. We were
- wondering if anyone has or knows of a program or product we could use to check
- passwords for a conformity standard (make sure they HAD special characters in
- it, etc.) so that we could allow users to make up their own passwords. We
- don't do it now since they could just put in their username or a proper name
- even with the password checker provided in VMS 5.4. That wouldn't be "prudent"
- in a security conscious environment. I guess we could use some extra password
- dictionaries as well. O-)
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- "Why do we PARK in the DRIVEway and DRIVE on the PARKway??"
- - Gallahger
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- Jon Baker
- Naval Surface Warfare Center
- Code N23A
- Dahlgren, VA 22448-5000
- 703-663-8705
- MILNET ADDRESS: SYSTEM_JB@UNODE1.NSWC.NAVY.MIL
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