Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!perelgut From: perelgut@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Perelgut) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Politically Viable Solution Message-ID: <5053@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Aug-84 10:03:17 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.5053 Posted: Sun Aug 19 10:03:17 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 14:18:42 EDT Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 11If you are really concerned about people choosing passwords that can be found in "dict", then why don't you fix passwd to check the given word against the dictionary and reject it if it matches. That way the passwords aren't random and "bad" passwords are prevented. -- Stephen Perelgut Computer Systems Research Institute University of Toronto Usenet: {linus, ihnp4, allegra, decvax, floyd}!utcsrgv!perelgut CSNET: perelgut@Toronto