Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!gatech!udel!rochester!pt!cadre!pitt!cisunx!nk233514 From: nk233514@cisunx.UUCP (Deus) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Passwords in /etc/group Message-ID: <3703@cisunx.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 20:37:42 EDT Article-I.D.: cisunx.3703 Posted: Thu Jul 9 20:37:42 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 09:41:38 EDT References: <5740010@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <207@macom1.UUCP> <3671@cisunx.UUCP> <2812@ncoast.UUCP> Reply-To: nk233514@cisunx.UUCP (Deus) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys Lines: 18 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?) > Decrypt passwords ? I think not since trying to vipw a large passwd file would take alot of CPU time. DES generated passwords ain't that easy to decrypt, right ? After all, if they were, why would the passwd file be world readable on most machines ? Deus