On 29-Jun-07, at 10:29 AM, Ian Piper wrote:
> Interestingly, in a VAX system I used to use it only measured the
> first 8 characters of your password, having established, when you
> changed your password, that it really had changed. So people used to
> use the same 8 character password and just add numbers to the end
> (which they never used when logging in) whenever it asked them to
> change.
Depends on how the admin set it up.
It had so many options for password expiration, significant letters,
etc that just setting that up was a chore.
VMS had a LOT of options for all kinds of things that I'm surprised
NT didnt adopt (yet?) becuase Dave Cutler and team from DEC were the
VMS guys and they now work for MS.
The most useful was being able to, on a directory by directory or
even file by file basis, tell the OS how many revisions to keep.
ACL's on VMS made most other OS's implementations, except maybe
Multics, look really lame
> Thanks to all for the replies. It looks as though I am going to have
> to implement my own solution. To explain why I wanted this, for one
> of my applications people have to run a setup wizard that asks them
> for a password. I wanted to offer a "suggest" button that would
> create a reasonably secure and reasonably memorable password just as
> a suggestion for them, so they could take that or create their own.
You could probably even find code for pwgen or some other such system.
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