Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 60-second timeout in Unix login
Message-ID: <7267@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 16 Feb 88 20:04:14 GMT
References: <10578@brl-adm.ARPA> <721X@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> <465@xios.XIOS.UUCP> <18083@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <18083@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>Actually at BRL, it remembers all past passwords that everyone used and
>won't ever let you reuse them (or use the "passwd" program to set too
>accounts to the same password).

Huh?  How could it do this when the passwords are never stored in the
clear?  I just changed my password on VGR.BRL.MIL to the same one that
I was already using, and it let me.  The same password is also used for
two other accounts that I know of.

I think your memory is failing you in your old age, Ron..