new password idea

[John F Haugh II]

In article <1414 at cameron.egr.duke.edu> jpe at egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) writes:
> In <26616 at adm.brl.mil> poulin at polar.bowdoin.edu (Jeff Poulin) writes:
>>write a password program for yourself and run it from .cshrc (or
>
>I've always thought it would be nice if vendors made password checking
>a modular function.

AIX v3 does exactly this.  You specify authentication methods, and the
system executes the specified program with the user name as the argument.

It allows you to add all manner of interesting checks or bizarre schemes,
such as the obscure "two man rule" where two people on different terminals
must simultaneously login using the same password before launching the
missles ...
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