Re: checking users's password

Sorry for the delayed thanks... but things got hecked here...... Thank you Michael Vergara and Brian...

 On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Brian McGraw wrote:

> Funny, I wrote a perl script to do this same thing the other day. It is a
> perl script, runs under UNIX, and not only checks for defaults, but the
> default Oracle passwords as well.
>
> I was kinda proud of it, so I thought I'd pass it along. Not
> Jared-Still-Perl-Evangelist quality, but I'm happy.
>
> Brian
>
> Deborah Weatherspoon wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > Can anyone provide/share with me a script that will check the users
> > password against their username. We are trying to verify that no one is
> > using his/her username as the password.
> >
> > Thanks for any help....
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