Find Trivial Passwords (no joes on V.2)
Al Filipski
al at mot.UUCP
Thu Feb 14 09:49:19 AEST 1985
> Here's a little shell script and program that test to see if any of the
> users on your system are joes. A joe is defined as someone who uses their
> login name as their password. The joes will be identified as being
Don't bother running this on System V.2. There are a lot more triviality
checks in passwd(1) and, among other things, circular shifts of the login
id are disallowed as passwords.
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Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A
{allegra | ihnp4 } ! sftig ! mot ! al
{seismo | ihnp4 } ! ut-sally ! oakhill ! mot ! al
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