Path: utzoo!dciem!dretor!chk
From: chk@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: password aging (was Re: virulence of the recent virus)
Message-ID: <1194@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 15 Nov 88 23:27:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: dretor.1194
References: <6704@venera.isi.edu> <1988Nov8.224853.16081@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: chk@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch)
Organization: NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Canada
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In article <1988Nov8.224853.16081@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <6704@venera.isi.edu> cracraft@venera.isi.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes:
>>... If you enable aging, for example, once every
>>month or two, every user who logs into your system will be required
>>to specify a new password.
>
>On the spur of the moment, which means that he often will make up a poor
>password, or simply alternate between two passwords.

On a system somewhere that aged passwords at the beginning of each month,
it was found that many users used the name of the month as their password
to make it easy to remember.

	-chk
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