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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Passwords in /etc/group
Message-ID: <399@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 12:51:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: acornrc.399
Posted: Wed Jul  8 12:51:56 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 06:49:55 EDT
References: <5740010@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <207@macom1.UUCP> <3671@cisunx.UUCP> <2812@ncoast.UUCP>
Organization: Acorn Research Centre, Palo Alto, CA
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Summary: vipw does not decrypt passwords

In article <2812@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
> BSD has "vipw".  Sys3, SysV, Xenix, etc. DON'T.  (Someone want to come up
> with a PD version? --mailed to security@rutgers rather than posted, perhaps.
> It does decrypt passwords, I believe?)

4.2bsd vipw doesn't decrypt passwords.  It provides file locking on the
passwd file and does a few sanity checks on the "root" entry.

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Bob Weissman
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