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From: heilpern@ibd.BRL.MIL (Mark A. Heilpern )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Password security - Another idea
Keywords: password security per-user password-modification
Message-ID: <240@ibd.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Jan 89 13:18:19 GMT
References: <228@sea375.UUCP> <4497@xenna.Encore.COM> <2271@pompeii.cs.swarthmore.edu> <4523@xenna.Encore.COM> <232@ibd.BRL.MIL> <669@brwa.inmos.co.uk>
Reply-To: heilpern@brl.arpa (Mark A. Heilpern (IBD) <heilpern>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <669@brwa.inmos.co.uk> rob@inmos.co.uk (Robin Pickering) writes:
-->In article <232@ibd.BRL.MIL> heilpern@brl.arpa (Mark A. Heilpern (IBD) <heilpern>) writes:

-->>Suppose, among the standard dot files in the home directory, there was to be
-->>a new one: .case . The login program is to check this file,
-->
-->Why stop with case, why not specify a more general per-user password pre-
-->munging mechanism.  This seems quite an effective way to increase the
-->password search space to any party without access to the private munging
-->factor used.
-->
--> Rob Pickering

Rob, 
	You've won my approval!
			Mark

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