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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Passwords in /etc/group
Message-ID: <2812@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 23:09:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.2812
Posted: Mon Jul  6 23:09:26 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jul-87 02:48:38 EDT
References: <5740010@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <207@macom1.UUCP> <3671@cisunx.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.unix.questions
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <3671@cisunx.UUCP> by nk233514@cisunx.UUCP (Deus):
+---------------
| In article <207@macom1.UUCP> michael@macom1.UUCP (Michael Mullins) writes:
| >Once the password is assigned, I "vi /etc/passwd" and yank the password 
| One thing I'd like to pas along i to use vipw, not vi, to edit the passwd
| file.
+---------------

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?)

++Brandon
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ncoast Public Access UN*X, +1 216 781 6201 -- we have alt.all (email for info)

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