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- From: op@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Olaf Pors)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: Proactive password checkers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.230810.19437@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 23:08:10 GMT
- Article-I.D.: murdoch.1992Nov10.230810.19437
- References: <1992Nov6.202148.1587@cs.sandia.gov>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
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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. I would very much
- >like to use this type of program, but I know I have very impatient
- >users out there that will not stand for long waits. Are we talking
- >seconds or minutes for these programs to run using an "acceptable"
- >password?
-
- We run a modified version of npasswd (modifications have
- nothing to do with speed). There is a barely perceptible
- delay before a password is either accepted or rejected.
-
- Olaf Pors
- Academic Computing Center
- University of Virginia
- op@Virginia.EDU
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