Password security

Guy Harris guy at auspex.UUCP
Wed Nov 30 04:20:59 AEST 1988


 >One enhacement to security I have seen on mainframes running UNIX(tm) is
 >to have a "External Security Password" that is settable by the system
 >administrator.

This is, as I remember, present but @#!$%#@! undocumented in, at least,
later S5 releases, with the "dialup password" mechanism.



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