On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, Ralph Huntington wrote:
> ... I still say switch to bsd, with it's
> more secure, (somewhat) shadowed passwd scheme (at least the actual
> encrypted passwd is not world readable).
Say what? It is almost trivial to read the encrypted passwords from the
shadow password file. I have found several programs to do so after we
have caught hackers.
Plus, linux CAN use shadow passwords if you want. Now that I have seen
how much it slows down a hacker (20 milli-seconds) I do not bother
anymore.
Sorry for the digression, I know this does not belong here...
RGDS
GARY
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