60-second timeout in Unix login

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Wed Feb 17 06:04:14 AEST 1988


In article <18083 at topaz.rutgers.edu> ron at topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>Actually at BRL, it remembers all past passwords that everyone used and
>won't ever let you reuse them (or use the "passwd" program to set too
>accounts to the same password).

Huh?  How could it do this when the passwords are never stored in the
clear?  I just changed my password on VGR.BRL.MIL to the same one that
I was already using, and it let me.  The same password is also used for
two other accounts that I know of.

I think your memory is failing you in your old age, Ron..



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