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From: evan@saturn.ucsc.edu (Evan Schaffer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: reusing passwords
Keywords: Say what?
Message-ID: <1996@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 88 03:00:59 GMT
References: <2133@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2500@codas.att.com> <2137@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: wolf@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Michael Wolf)
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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>In article <2500@codas.att.com> mikel@codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius) writes:
>>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 is true, but in the case of VAX/VMS, you don't have to
>accidentally type your password at the "Username:" prompt for it to
>appear on the console.  It's enough to be unable to log in a number of
>times, and this helpful operating system will make a console record of
>the username *and* the password that were typed.
>-- 
>Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi

You must have a very strange version of VMS.  Harvey Mudd College has
several VMS systems, and a casual look at the login records on the
console shows no sign of the user's passwords being printed out.

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