Worm/Passwords

John F. Haugh II jfh at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US
Fri Nov 11 17:18:30 AEST 1988


In article <17830 at glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn at glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes:
>      Some years ago, I posted a small piece of code to the net which
>was intended for incorporation in password-setting programs to prevent
>the use of easily guessable passwords.  In response to the recent
>troubles, I am reposting it to comp.sources.unix.

I have been working on a drop-in replacement for login and friends since I
learned of the Internet virus.

It has been posted to alt.sources and pubnet.sources.  I truly welcome 
comments and invite your participation.  I'd have posted it to
comp.unix.sources but it is far from finished.
-- 
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