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From: sns@genghis.UUCP (Sam Southard)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: password security
Summary: not on a Convex
Message-ID: <410@genghis.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 88 18:22:40 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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In article <5835@saturn.ucsc.edu>, haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (99700000) writes:
> time I logged into a tahoe system and tried to change my password it
> wouldn't rest until I had put a non-alphabetic character into it.
> Had the same experience on a Convex machine.

Someone at your site probably modified /bin/passwd.  I know of a Convex C1 with
the latest software releases from Convex (I think) and it does accept a
completely alphabetic password.
-- 

Sam Southard, Jr.
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