Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!codas!mikel
From: mikel@codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: reusing passwords
Message-ID: <2500@codas.att.com>
Date: 17 Feb 88 03:35:53 GMT
References: <2133@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Altamonte Springs, FL
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In article <2133@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> 
> Probably not, but if you mistype your password a number of times, it is
> quite likely that what you type will be recorded in hard-copy on the
> operator's console.

We had that problem here when we modified login to show unsucessful
login attempts on the console. Login would print the login name and
date of the unsuccessful attempt.

We soon learned that often over-anxious users type their password at
the login prompt, resulting it it's showing up on the console. That
soon changed to a "secure" file.
-- 
					Mikel Manitius
					mikel@codas.att.com