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- From: hoffman@xdelta.enet.dec.com (Stephen Hoffman)
- Subject: Re: Sysman and dual passwords.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.152331.731@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Reply-To: hoffman@xdelta.enet.dec.com (Stephen Hoffman)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, NH
- References: <3SEP199210165518@andre>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:23:31 GMT
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- In article <3SEP199210165518@andre>, michael@major.ucnv.edu.au writes:
- |>Path: nntpd.lkg.dec.com!news.crl.dec.com!pa.dec.com!decwrl!spool.mu.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!goanna!sheoak!andre!system
- |>From: michael@major.ucnv.edu.au
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- |>Has anyone experienced a problem with sysman when using an account with
- |>a dual password. We are having problems since installing a new system disk.
- |>(Yes it did work beforehand). Now we get refused remote access to other nodes
- |>on the cluster when we do a "SET ENVIRONMENT/CLUSTER" and then try some
- |>commands...
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- This use of dual passwords should not work, nor should it have
- worked in the past. Nor can I explain why you had this working.
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- The design of dual passwords is intended to prevent situtations
- where one user can know or can see both passwords -- dual passwords
- are intended for relatively high-security environments -- systems
- where TWO individuals must be present in order to log in under a
- specific username.
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- This dual-password design extends to areas like the specification
- of DECnet access control: only one password can be specified, and
- there is no way to include the secondary password.
-
- If one person knows both of the passwords, the situation is little
- different than using a single password that is the concatenation
- of the password pair. Use of one (longer) password is prefered
- in this situation.
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