Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ncar!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!astieber From: astieber@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Anthony J Stieber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Password security - Another idea Message-ID: <329@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> Date: 10 Jan 89 23:00:28 GMT References: <228@sea375.UUCP> <4497@xenna.Encore.COM> <6634@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <674@ihnet.ATT.COM> <8705@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <9326@smoke.BRL.MIL> Sender: news@csd4.milw.wisc.edu Reply-To: astieber@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Anthony J Stieber) Organization: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Lines: 10 How about this: Each account has several passwords only one is active at a time. On each login the next password (or phrase) is activated. An alternative would be that at logout a password would randomly be chossen and message refering to that password would be printed for the user. The advantage to this is that a user would know the moment they tried to login that some one has used their account (unless all passwords were broken).