Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!codas!mikel
From: mikel@codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Remembering old passwords
Message-ID: <2593@codas.att.com>
Date: 18 Feb 88 04:53:51 GMT
References: <2178@ttrdc.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Altamonte Springs, FL
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In article <2178@ttrdc.UUCP>, levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>
> Also -- if "passwd" unexpectedly refuses to let a user set a proposed password
> he has chosen, it would be a tipoff that he has stumbled over somebody else's
> current password.

This is why my original posting said that the old password table should
be indexed per user, so if the password is refused, then it can only
mean that THAT particular user used THAT particular password before.

This will also reduce the validation time, resulting in less calls
to crypt(3).
-- 
					Mikel Manitius
					mikel@codas.att.com