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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!usenet.ufl.edu!d88-jwn From: d88-jwn@astro.ufl.edu (Johan Wahlin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Passwords in 386bsd Date: 3 Nov 1993 21:19:41 GMT Organization: Astronomy Dept. University of Florida Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2b979dINN7du@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: astro.ufl.edu Hi, Having read an article about the Internet worm in [Communications of the ACM, June 1989, Vol 32, No 6, Pg 677] I came across some thoughts about passsword security on pg 680 leading me to these questions about 386bsd; Does 386bsd implement or is anyone thinking of implementing: i, A check for repeated password attempts from the same process. ii, Making the program passwd check for bad passwords by checking combinations with the users name/id and by using the online dictionary. Thank you for your interest. Ohh, and _thank you_ for 386bsd (NetBSD / FreeBSD). /Johan