new password idea

Jeff Smith jeffs at soul.esd.sgi.com
Wed Apr 24 04:26:54 AEST 1991


In <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

That may help, but a resourceful hacker will easily get past that.
You can often ^C to terminate the .cshrc, or replace the .cshrc
via the network (with ftp).

It's best to use good passwords.  Some newer systems now split up the
password file information so you can't read the encripted password
without root authority.

jeffs



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