Find Trivial Passwords (no joes on V.2)

Al Filipski al at mot.UUCP
Thu Feb 14 09:49:19 AEST 1985


> Here's a little shell script and program that test to see if any of the
> users on your system are joes. A joe is defined as someone who uses their
> login name as their password. The joes will be identified as being 

Don't bother running this on System V.2.  There are a lot more triviality 
checks in passwd(1) and, among other things, circular shifts of the login
id are disallowed as passwords.

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Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A
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