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From: jpe@egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: new password idea
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Date: 25 Apr 91 19:59:19 GMT
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 In <26616@adm.brl.mil> poulin@polar.bowdoin.edu (Jeff Poulin) writes:
>write a password program for yourself and run it from .cshrc (or

I've always thought it would be nice if vendors made password checking
a modular function.  That is, something that an inventive individual could
easily replace without OS source.  Think about it -- password checking is
the one piece of code you don't want everyone else to have...

-John