Need help with password aging

Andrew Koenig ark at alice.UUCP
Tue Mar 21 07:42:43 AEST 1989


In article <3275 at ttrdc.UUCP>, levy at ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:

> Toggling can be defeated by storing all past passwords for each user.

Yes indeed.  Then the users have to tack a sequence number onto
their passwords.  Meanwhile it gets slower each time you change
your password and there's a file sitting around that people would
just love to steal.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark at europa.att.com



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