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Re: Trivial passwords

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (smb@ULYSSES.ATT.COM)
Tue Jun 19 05:14:30 1990

From: smb@ULYSSES.ATT.COM
To: bcn@CS.WASHINGTON.EDU (Clifford Neuman)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU, lunt@CTT.BELLCORE.COM, jon@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 90 04:10:06 EDT

	 I believe that the correct place for checking the sanity of passwords
	 is at the client.  A user that makes the effort to get around the
	 restriction is only hurting itself.

No, the client is also hurting other users who rely on the shared
resources of the realm.

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