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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Passwords in 386bsd Date: 14 Nov 1993 06:12:37 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2c4i8l$ggb@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2c3cvh$470@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2c3cvh$470@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, Todd Gruhn <cj766@cleveland.Freenet.Edu> wrote: > >I have played with the password routines on NetNSD. It appears to >be far more robust and secure than 386BSD. Does anyone know about >FreeBSD? For one, NetBSD insists you use punctuation, or upper/low- >er case mixtures to discourage "cracking". Your memory is failing you, since the password program in 386/Free/NetBSD are the same, and haven't changed (other than bug-fixes, if any) > Can someone tell me why I can no longer find COPS for NetBSD? Could you find it at one time, and now it's gone? COPS is pretty standard. It should run under most modern OS's w/out any changes, or very little changes. Dan did a good job in building it. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me