reusing passwords

Rahul Dhesi dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP
Wed Feb 17 03:44:49 AEST 1988


>>If VMS can actually determine that you have used the same password, then it
>>is either keeping your unencrypted password somewhere..

Probably not, but if you mistype your password a number of times, it is
quite likely that what you type will be recorded in hard-copy on the
operator's console.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi



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