Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!rusux1!jellosub.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de!schmid From: schmid@jellosub.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (Georg Schmid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: re: password checker Message-ID: <1990Sep5.151525@jellosub.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de> Date: 5 Sep 90 13:15:25 GMT References: <9009050220.AA17028@umix.cc.umich.edu> Sender: zrf80385@rusux1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de Reply-To: schmid@jellosub.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (Georg Schmid) Organization: Dept. for Statics & Dynamics of Aerospace Structures (ISD) Lines: 22 In article <9009050220.AA17028@umix.cc.umich.edu>, YEOAK@NUSDISCS.BITNET writes: |> |> Re: password checker |> There is a public domain pgm 'chkpwd' in SIMTEL20. |> I have never used it myself. It seems to meet what you want as |> it uses the algorithm the Internet worm used for cracking passwords |> in order to look for obvious passwords. |> The pgm is stored in PD2: as CHKPWD.TAR-Z. Please pardon my ignorance, but could someone please explain what SIMTEL20 is ? Thanks, georg. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Georg Schmid, ISD University of Stuttgart, W.-Germany email: schmid@asterix.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.110.2) voice: +49 711-685-2053 fax: +49 711-685-3706 ____________________________________________________________________