password security

[Sam Southard]

In article <5835 at saturn.ucsc.edu>, haynes at ucscc.UCSC.EDU (99700000) writes:
> time I logged into a tahoe system and tried to change my password it
> wouldn't rest until I had put a non-alphabetic character into it.
> Had the same experience on a Convex machine.

Someone at your site probably modified /bin/passwd.  I know of a Convex C1 with
the latest software releases from Convex (I think) and it does accept a
completely alphabetic password.
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Sam Southard, Jr.
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