Need help with password aging
Andrew Koenig
ark at alice.UUCP
Tue Mar 21 07:42:43 AEST 1989
In article <3275 at ttrdc.UUCP>, levy at ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
> Toggling can be defeated by storing all past passwords for each user.
Yes indeed. Then the users have to tack a sequence number onto
their passwords. Meanwhile it gets slower each time you change
your password and there's a file sitting around that people would
just love to steal.
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--Andrew Koenig
ark at europa.att.com
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