I noticed the PASSWORD program puts password attempts in plain text into
its log file. This is dangerous if the user only barely miskeys their
password and another user reads the log file.

I made a modification to only say which user was attempted. Patch file
included.

Happy Hacking,

David E. McMackins II
Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972)
Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889)

www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com
www.eff.org www.gnu.org www.fsf.org

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