tech-security: Re: security/10206 - proposed solution (concept)

Subject: Re: security/10206 - proposed solution (concept)
To: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: tech-security
Date: 08/16/2005 19:12:29

In message <43026322.7060500@NetBSD.org>, Elad Efrat writes:
>Hi,
>
>I've written concept code, still work in progress, that allows an
>admin to set a password policy in /etc/passwd.conf.
>
>
Hmm -- at the rump session of CRYPTO 2005 tonight, there's a talk 
"Passwords -- No Longer Viable"...

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb