Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!jsq From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Don't force random passwords on people! Message-ID: <3156@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 11:11:18 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.3156 Posted: Tue Aug 21 11:11:18 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 05:35:40 EDT References: <12465@sri-arpa.UUCP> <202@amd.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 8 What we've done to stop people using easily guessable passwords is to write a little program that tries to guess them, and advertise that we're running it all the time. People didn't believe us until we got four or five hits the first couple of days. Then it was amazing how the frequency of hits dropped off.... -- John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 USA jsq@ut-sally.ARPA, jsq@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!jsq