RE: Password Validation

[Malcolm Westley <mwestley@xxxxxx>]

The clock chimed 2:39 PM -0500 6/14/99 when Allen, Stuart scribbled:
>I know its not the best solution, but i don't want to use these sys values
>to restrict people.
>There is currently a fairly free reign over passwords, so long as they're
>over 6 letters; and i think i'd get shot by angry users if i tried to force
>everyone to use non-repeating, non-adjacent,non-vowel, alphanumeric
>passwords with digits in!
>Those that wouldn't attack me would be completely mystified by the concept,
>ergo more work for me.
>I just want to disallow the mega-obvious passwords.
>
>Stuart
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Graap, Ken [mailto:keg@exchange.gasco.com]
>Sent: 14 June 1999 17:49
>To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
>Cc: 'sallen@fellowes.com'
>Subject: RE: Password Validation
>
>
>>I want to implement a simple password validation program to disallow
>>passwords such as "password", the company name, etc.
>
>Sturat -
>

Stuart,

Why not just set up a file with invalid passwords, then you could add more
as necessary. Your program would then just have to chain to this file with
the password given and return invalid password when found in the file.

hth,
Malcolm


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