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  From: Andrew Pullin <andrew@hotspurbgc.com.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
        <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:35:43 +1000

Re: One User, Many Passwords

Hi All,
    I can see reasons why someone would want to have two
passwords on one account, after all I'm sure most Linux
users su or such like often enough so it would be handy. I
am fairly sure that the reason you probably can't do this is
a security issue, ie two passwords on one account, two
possible combinations to crack. If you believe how "easy" it
is to crack a password these days from what they say on the
net, then doubling the number of passwords on an account
seems to me that you half the time it takes to crack the
account. I know I wouldn't want that on my account no matter
how convenient it was.
    Cheers!
        Andrew.


----- Original Message -----
From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
To: <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: One User, Many Passwords


>
> Is there any easy way to convince Linux to accept multiple
passwords for
> one user?
>
> (eg, user foo's will gain access if password is "p1" or
"p2" or
> "whatever_other_ones_there_could_be")
>
> DSL
> --
> "And the winner is
>    InUnifiedCanadianAboriginalSyllabics"
> - Larry Wall et al in Programming Perl
>
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