new password idea

[Ashmeet S Sidana]

In article <26616 at adm.brl.mil> poulin at polar.bowdoin.edu (Jeff Poulin) writes:

>write a password program for yourself and run it from .cshrc (or
>whatever).  That way, even if someone breaks into your account, they

If you try this, make sure the first thing you do on login is turn off all
interrupts! (Its not enough to turn off ^C in password program itself since
the intruder may interrupt the shell). Even then there is a window ...

---Ashmeet Sidana
   sidana at cs.stanford.edu
   sidana at hpcc01.hp.com