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From: jon@hitachi.uucp (Jon Ryshpan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO Unix password scheme sucks!
Message-ID: <662@hitachi.uucp>
Date: 12 Dec 90 03:02:03 GMT
References: <36535@cup.portal.com> <kherron.660320889@s.ms.uky.edu> <36600@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: jon@hitachi.UUCP (Jon Ryshpan)
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In article <36600@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>> It's called security.  I don't know about your site, but some sites have
>> to protect against breakins, and that means users have to use reasonable
>> passwords, not stupid ones like "a".  

SysV Unix (at least Interactive) allows you to create a password
without numerics or special chars for root or a system account at
system initialization, but it won't allow a user account to have
this kind of password.

Explain that!

Jonathan Ryshpan		<...!uunet!hitachi!jon>