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From: fuka@concave.uucp (Kent Fuka)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: password security
Summary: Convex password clarification
Keywords: convex, password
Message-ID: <775@convex.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 88 16:54:05 GMT
References: <11013@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <2308@cuuxb.ATT.COM> <5835@saturn.ucsc.edu> <410@genghis.UUCP>
Sender: news@convex.UUCP
Reply-To: fuka@convex1.UUCP (Kent Fuka)
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx.
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In article <410@genghis.UUCP> sns@genghis.UUCP (Sam Southard) writes:
>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.

Recent Convex OS releases support password aging, minimum password length
enforcement, and restriction against trivial passwords. These options
are enforcable on a per-user basis through a seperate password restriction
file (/etc/pwrestrict).  It sounds like your system administrator has
enabled the restriction against trivial passwords.