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- From: syscrc@pickle.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter)
- Subject: Re: Proactive password checkers
- Message-ID: <syscrc.721157299@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>
- Organization: Georgia State University
- References: <1992Nov6.202148.1587@cs.sandia.gov> <1dfhasINN1q6@early-bird.think.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:28:19 GMT
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- barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov6.202148.1587@cs.sandia.gov> wllarso@sandia.gov (William L Larson) writes:
- >>How long does it take to proactivly check passwords using npasswd,
- >>passwd+, or Larry Wall's passwd Perl script.
- >
- >We use npasswd and the overhead is imperceptible on a Sparcstation.
- >--
- >Barry Margolin
- >System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
- >
- >barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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- We use the ndbm(1) feature of both passwd+ and npasswd with SGI's IRIX 4.0
- and have favorable performance.
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