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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: reusing passwords
Message-ID: <2133@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 88 17:44:49 GMT
References: <10578@brl-adm.ARPA> <721X@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> <465@xios.XIOS.UUCP> <468@minya.UUCP> <2304@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Summary: just print them on the operator's console

>>If VMS can actually determine that you have used the same password, then it
>>is either keeping your unencrypted password somewhere..

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.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi