Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site mot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!oakhill!mot!al From: al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski) Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: Re: Find Trivial Passwords (no joes on V.2) Message-ID: <98@mot.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 18:49:19 EST Article-I.D.: mot.98 Posted: Wed Feb 13 18:49:19 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 17-Feb-85 04:55:36 EST References: <215@pyramid.UUCP> Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Phoenix AZ Lines: 15 > Here's a little shell script and program that test to see if any of the > users on your system are joes. A joe is defined as someone who uses their > login name as their password. The joes will be identified as being Don't bother running this on System V.2. There are a lot more triviality checks in passwd(1) and, among other things, circular shifts of the login id are disallowed as passwords. -------------------------------- Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A {allegra | ihnp4 } ! sftig ! mot ! al {seismo | ihnp4 } ! ut-sally ! oakhill ! mot ! al -------------------------------- "O groin murder, wart bag icer gut. A nervous sausage bag ice ! " -- Ladle Rat Rotten Hut