Don't force random passwords on people!

John Quarterman jsq at ut-sally.UUCP
Wed Aug 22 01:11:18 AEST 1984


What we've done to stop people using easily guessable passwords is to
write a little program that tries to guess them, and advertise that
we're running it all the time.  People didn't believe us until we got
four or five hits the first couple of days.  Then it was amazing how
the frequency of hits dropped off....
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 USA
jsq at ut-sally.ARPA, jsq at ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!jsq



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