Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ll-xn!ames!acornrc!bob 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 Lines: 13 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. -- Bob Weissman Internet: bob@acornrc.UUCP UUCP: ...!{ ames | decwrl | oliveb | apple }!acornrc!bob Arpanet: bob%acornrc.UUCP@AMES.ARPA