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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: What is COPS?
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.211933.10462@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 91 21:19:33 GMT
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'cops' is a package of programs intended to be used by system administrators
to check for security vulnerability.

It includes a password-guessing program that gets all the easy-to-guess
passwords (i.e., all those that match the user name, or any word in a list
of common passwords, or any word in the English spelling dictionary, or
any of these spelled backward).


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